That scientists, doing basic research with partners overseas, are somehow implicated in China's surveillance ploy is disheartening. With that being said, an immediate solution is unclear to me. Certainly foreign scientists shouldn't stop collaborating with Chinese scientists. And, frankly, I'm not entirely certain whether Chinese scientists are wittingly cooperating with their totalitarian government. If they are, then sigh. Yet, if they aren't, then, well, sigh again.