The new red scare on American campuses
Both their host government and their home government increasingly view Chinese students with suspicion
EARLY LAST autumn Alex and Victor, two students from mainland China, sat in the back row of a packed auditorium at Columbia Law School, in New York. They were there for a talk by Joshua Wong, thrice-jailed young hero of the Hong Kong democracy movement, which the two students support. They applauded enthusiastically; they also wore blue face masks.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “The new red scare”
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January 4th 2020
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