On behalf of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America, the Asian American Scholar Forum, the Chinese American Hematologist and Oncologist Network, and the Chinese Biological Investigators Society, we applaud the News Feature “Pall of suspicion” (J. Mervis, 24 March, p. 1180) and accompanying Editorial, “Eroding trust and collaboration” (H. H. Thorp, 24 March, p. 1171). These articles revealed secretive and widespread investigations of Chinese American scholars prompted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under what Mervis described as “NIH’s China Initiative.” As Mervis explains, “81% of the scientists cited in the NIH letters identify as Asian,” and hundreds of Chinese American scholars’ lives and careers have been disrupted or ruined. The Department of Justice’s original “China Initiative,” launched in 2018 to protect national security, raised concerns that Asian Americans and immigrants were being profiled. Although there have since been positive changes to that program (1), both scientists and nonscientists in the United States must remain vigilant to ensure that history does not repeat itself.