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The FBI last month arrested Gang Chen, a well-known MIT nanotechnologist, and charged the China-born naturalized American with concealing ...

The Biden administration quietly tossed a proposed rule that would have required U.S. universities and K-12 schools with foreign exchange programs to disclose any financial ties or other connections to Chinese state-run Confucius Institutes.

Executive Summary Espionage poses a threat to national security and the private property rights of Americans. The government should address the threat of espionage in a manner whereby the benefits of government actions taken to reduce it outweigh the costs of those actions. To aid in that goal, this policy analysis presents the first combined database of all identified spies who targeted both the U.S. government and private organizations on U.S. soil. This analysis identifies 1,485 spies on A...

Florida Professor Charged With Concealing China Ties From NIH By   A former University of Florida professor was indicted for allegedly concealing information related to a Chinese company he founded and other affiliations with Chinese entities from his employer and the National Institutes of Health, which funded his research with a $1.75 million grant. The indictment alleges that Yin Lang, an associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, "repeatedly made false statements to...

Former University of Florida Researcher Indicted for Concealing CCP Ties Federal prosecutors have charged a former University of Florida professor with concealing support he received from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) while collecting $1.75 million in U.S. taxpayer grant money for research that benefited a firm he secretly founded in China. Lin Yang, 43, lived in Tampa, Florida, when he committed the alleged offenses, which include six counts of wire fraud and four counts of making false st...

325 Australian-Based Scientists, Researchers Identified as Recruits for Beijing Australian Research Funds Could Be Supporting CCP Military Tech Development Over 325 academics and scientists in Australian universities and research institutes have been identified as alleged recruits of Beijing’s controversial overseas talent-recruitment programs. The allegations raise questions over potential conflicts of interest, grant fraud, and Australian research funds inadvertently advancing the Chinese C...

The US Department of Justice alleges a chief scientist at NASA was illegally a member of a Chinese government recruitment program. Meyya Meyyappan, 66, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying to federal investigators about his ties to foreign universities and a Chinese government recruitment initiative. Meyyappan was a member of the Thousand Talents Program, a Chinese government group that works to recruit international experts in scientific research and innovation. A chief scientist at NASA plead...

Meyya Meyyappan, 66, was a member of China's Thousand Talents Program, a Chinese government group that recruits international scientific experts.

A senior NASA scientist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying about his ties to a program that encourages researchers to develop relationships with China in exchange for grants, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

A senior NASA scientist pleaded guilty to falsely denying his connection to a Chinese program used to steal American intellectual property and technology.