Editing Red Scare (section)

== New Red Scare ==
{{Further|Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States#21st century Anti-Chinese sentiment and presidential campaigns}}
According to ''[[The New York Times]]'', [[China]]'s growing military and economic power has resulted in a "New Red Scare" in the United States. Both Democrats and Republicans have expressed anti-China sentiment.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Swanson|first=Ana|date=2019-07-20|title=A New Red Scare Is Reshaping Washington|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html|access-date=2022-01-03|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2019-07-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720234508/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/20/us/politics/china-red-scare-washington.html|url-status=live}}</ref> According to ''[[The Economist]]'', the New Red Scare has caused the American and Chinese governments to "increasingly view Chinese students with suspicion" on American college campuses.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2020-01-02|title=The new red scare on American campuses|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|url=https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/02/the-new-red-scare-on-american-campuses|access-date=2022-01-03|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=2023-07-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725104521/https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/01/02/the-new-red-scare-on-american-campuses|url-status=live}}</ref>

The fourth iteration of the [[Committee on the Present Danger]], a [[United States foreign policy]] interest group, was established on March 25, 2019, branding itself Committee on the Present Danger: China (CPDC).<ref name=":5"/> The CPDC has been criticized as promoting a revival of Red Scare politics in the United States, and for its ties to conspiracy theorist [[Frank Gaffney]] and conservative activist [[Steve Bannon]].<ref name=":5"/><ref name=":6">{{cite news|last=Skidmore|first=David|date=July 23, 2019|title=The US Scare Campaign Against China: The political calculations behind exaggerating the 'present danger' – from the Cold War to today|newspaper=[[The Diplomat (magazine)|The Diplomat]]|url=https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/|accessdate=December 31, 2020|archive-date=October 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014183408/https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-us-scare-campaign-against-china/|url-status=live}}</ref> David Skidmore, writing for ''[[The Diplomat (magazine)|The Diplomat]]'', saw it as another instance of "adolescent hysteria" in American diplomacy, as another of the "fevered crusades [which] have produced some of the costliest mistakes in American foreign policy".<ref name=":6" /> Between 2000 and 2023, there were 224 reported instances of Chinese espionage directed at the United States.<ref>{{cite web |title=Survey of Chinese Espionage in the United States Since 2000 {{!}} Strategic Technologies Program {{!}} CSIS |url=https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/survey-chinese-espionage-united-states-2000 |access-date=2024-01-21 |website=www.csis.org |language=en}}</ref>