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(Bloomberg) -- It’s “common sense†for the U.S. to worry that China might detain some Americans in retaliation for the prosecution of Chinese scholars, according to Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed Global Times. Hu was responding to a Wall Street Journal report, citing people familiar, that said officials in Beijing had warned the U.S. that American nationals in China could be detained as a result of the Justice Department’s actions against scholars affiliated with the Chinese military. In a series of tweets on Sunday evening, Hu accused the U.S. of applying double standards when it came to...
