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At least 500 students have been rejected under a policy issued by then-President Donald Trump to block Beijing from obtaining US technology with possible military uses

Director of Slovak Confucius Institute Allegedly Threatens Independent Scholar Ľuboslav Štora, the former director of the Confucius Institute (CI) in Slovakia’s Bratislava, drew attention for sending intimidating messages in emails to Matej Šimalčík, one of the key independent experts on China in Central and East European countries. Štora had served as the head of the Slovak branch of communist China’s tech giant ZTE before he worked for the CI, which was founded in 2007 on basis of an agreement between China’s Tianjin University and the Slovak University of Technology. Šimalčí...

April 28, 2021 | 7:27 PM A Wellesley man from China pleaded guilty in Boston federal court Wednesday to charges of illegally exporting $100,000 worth of anti-submarine devices to a Chinese military university, federal prosecutors say. Shuren Qin, 44, was arrested and charged in the summer of 2018. He pleaded guilty to ten counts, including conspiracy to unlawfully export objects, visa fraud, money laundering, and smuggling hydrophones to Northwestern Polytechnical University. Hydrophones are devices used to detect and monitor sound underwater. Beginning around July 2015 and continuing throug...

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 NIH and UF, and failed to disclose and concealed his conflicts of interest related to the NIH grant...