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On 13 September, a website called Winds of Freedom — set up by Stanford faculty members — published an open letter dated 8 September and signed by 177 faculty members, calling for US Attorney General Merrick Garland to terminate the “China Initiative” introduced in 2018. These academics raised criticisms that the programme has “deviated significantly from its claimed mission: it is harming the United States’ research and technology competitiveness and it is fueling biases that, in turn, raise concerns about racial profiling.” Reuters reported that the letter is now being supported by about 140 University of California, Berkeley professors. Before...
