1. Either Eric Yuan and Zoom are “agents” and “instrumentalities” of the Chinese government, or
2. Somebody at USDOE is a complete knucklehead and screwed up, or
3. Somebody at USDOE is maybe (not definitely) a xenophobe and “assumed” that Eric Yuan was a dangerous Chinese national and his company is a foreign company based in China.
I betting on the fact that it is a little bit of #2 and a lot of #3 and this whole thing smells to me like good 'ol fashion Number 2.
Hi Harley,
I agree with you, but you omitted two other possibilities:
- This is a part of the organized “pile-on” attack by one or more of Zoom’s competitors who influenced the DOE to throw Zoom into this, knowing that nothing will come of it, but it puts a bad odor on Zoom again.
- Someone high up in the Federal government who doesn’t like Chinese people may have told the head of the DOE to “Make sure you check out that ‘Chinaman’ who is the head of that Zoom company.”
Saul