Trump drags US universities into virus battle with China

As long as the CCP has it's Thousand Talents program and Confucius Institutes exerting control over Universities and Chinese nationals there will be problems. We've had Ambassadorial 'visit's' used as cover for Chinese espionage in the past, with female 'secretaries' getting 'lost' only to be found inspecting research equipment, some of us know enough manderin to understand their discussion was scientific not esthetic. One spinout was burgled for their trade secrets shortly afterwards, no doubt guided by the in-house embedded party official... Trump may not be anyones favourite, but on this he's not too far from the mark, the CCP is a huge threat and playing their 'game' to keep Chinese students coming with their money is at best short sighted, soon only the CCP's trusted Fuerdai will be the only ones coming, just enough to keep reporting back and studying the latest developments in things such as computer security.

The increasing politicisation of the pandemic is a matter of concern, never mind people suffering a recurrance of a 'Reds under the bed' mentality regarding China. The hot air from self-interested politicians is already obscuring scientific evidence, and it's becoming harder to hear and act upon scientific/medican advice with the clamour from politicians who attempt to usurp or second-guess that advice and peddle 'recommendations' of their own. As for a vaccine, whilst it's nice to be the one who produces the first one (and probably there's a Nobel Prize for Medicine lurking in the wings...), who gives a monkeys as long as a reliable one hits the streets before long?