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Although the United States and China have signed a phase one agreement, the trade friction that has lasted for nearly two years is still brewing.
The United States has repeatedly imposed sanctions to exclude Chinese companies from the US technology supply chain. As the relationship between the two sides becomes increasingly hostile, Chinese engineers working in Silicon Valley are the first to bear the brunt. Not only have some people been accused of stealing trade secrets, but they have even been discriminated against by technology companies.
英国金融时报採访了几位来自中国、在硅谷工作的工程师。
亚马逊的张乐林（音译）大叹，在中美争端中，他们无疑成了砲灰，却又无能为力。
他说他的邻居张晓郎（音译）在2019年1月底从苹果跳槽至一家中国电动车新创事业后，被控窃取商业机密。
听说当时有大批FBI干员大动作突袭张晓郎住家，过程有如电影般充满戏剧张力。
这让他不禁怀疑，美方似乎要刻意作戏给其他中国科技员工看，「杀鸡儆猴」。
着有《跨太平洋实验》（The Transpacific Experiment）的Matt Sheehan说，「多年来，硅谷凭藉着三种货币运作：
程式码、人脉和资金；
其中，中国工程师製造出大量的程式码，中国的创投资本家则源源不绝地提供资金，让中国人相对容易融入硅谷。
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然而，过去两年在川普主导下，美国卯上中国最大电信设备供应商华为，加上一连串中国人被控窃取商业机密，气氛为之丕变，上述模式也应声改变，「首先，贸易战让创投资金嘎然而止，进而牵连大型企业，让事态日益複杂，如今则蔓延到个别研究员身上，」Sheehan说。
This is not the first time that the US government has been suspicious of immigrants with ties to China due to concerns about technology transfer.
As early as 1999, Wen Ho Lee, an American nuclear physicist from Taiwan, was charged with intelligence gathering and was held in solitary confinement for nine months after his arrest. However, the US has never been able to prove the accusation, as it was based on his friendship with Chinese scientists.
For the Chinese in Silicon Valley, a proposal from the U.S. Department of Commerce is particularly chilling. Through this proposal, American technology companies may have a legal basis in the future to justify discriminatory treatment against them or even fire them.
The Commerce Department said it intends to expand export controls on so-called "dual-use" technologies, which can be used for both civilian and military purposes, and could in the future extend those controls to "emerging" and "foundational" technologies, with areas such as artificial intelligence and microprocessor chips being examined.
Under U.S. regulations, even conversations between Americans and foreigners about technology are considered "exports requiring a license," and technology companies may have to apply for licenses for foreign employees from countries outside NATO, with Chinese, Russians and Iranians classified as the most sensitive.
In 2018, the number of export licenses issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce to Chinese people was halved, from 771 in the previous year to 350, which was the largest decrease in proportion among all countries.
According to Beijing Jiafu Longzhou Business Consulting Company, as a result, the human resources departments of several Silicon Valley companies have begun to formulate plans to separate Chinese employees from other researchers.
Although lawyers specializing in this area believe that these concerns are premature, Weng Libo (transliteration), an engineer working for a semiconductor company in California, said that it is becoming increasingly difficult for Chinese engineers to be promoted in their jobs.
他说，「和同事与朋友聊过后，我发现雇主对于拔擢中国工程师至可以接触人工智能、芯片等核心技术的职位，变得更加谨慎，这些技术美国比其他国家更先进，在川普上任前，情况没有这麽严峻。
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