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The recent arrest of two US Navy sailors of Chinese ancestry on espionage charges has raised concerns that, at a time of heightening tensions between the US and China, Chinese paramount leader Xi Jinping’s increasing usage of ethnonationalist propaganda towards the Han Chinese diaspora has begun…