Spy agencies’ focus on China could snare Chinese Americans

By NOMAAN MERCHANT and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — China is the foremost challenge for U.S. national security agencies, a so-called “hard target” that is America’s chief rival for global dominance. But as the agencies ramp up their efforts to spy on Beijing, they also acknowledge Chinese Americans may end up having more of their phone calls and emails captured unintentionally. A new Biden administration report makes several recommendations for the intelligence community. Among them are expanding unconscious bias training, and reiterating to their workforces that targeting someone strictly due to their ethnicity is illegal.