Chinese Academics in US Increasingly Going Home Out of Fear

Trump-era spying probe a major cause as ‘yellow peril’ recurs

The United States is paying a heavy price for the China Initiative, the 2018 probe of academic and economic spying begun by then-President Donald Trump which has driven up the number of Chinese-born academics departing back to China by 40 percent, according to a new study by the Asian American Forum.

The investigation was ordered ended last February by P…