On August 26, 2018, CBS 60 Minutes rebroadcast "Collateral Damage" nationwide with updates on the stories of Sherry Chen and Professor Xiaoxing Xi. Bill Whitaker reported on these and other innocent Chinese Americans wrongly accused of espionage-related crimes as the U.S. steps up the fight against Chinese theft of U.S. trade secrets and intellectual property.  

60 Minutes Overtime, titled "The Spy Who Wasn't," further describes that "[a]s innocent Chinese Americans are being accused as spies, the impact on them and their families lasts far beyond the legal fees and dropped charges."

Sherry Chen and Professor Xiaoxing Xi are not the only Asian American victims of racial discrimination in U.S. history. Collateral damage for Chinese American scientists is also not a recent occurrence by chance.

The Chinese Exclusion Act prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers beginning in 1882.  Subsequent amendments expanded the exclusion to all Asians. It was one of the most explicitly discriminatory laws based on race and national origin in U.S. history. The Chinese Exclusion Act and its amendments were not repealed until 1943. More on the Chinese Exclusion Act is available here.

​During the Second World War, about 120,000 Japanese were interned under Executive Order 9066, about two thirds of them were native-born American citizens. Most of them were uprooted from their homes in the West Coast and sent to relocation centers​ for suspicion of disloyalty to the United States.