The National Taiwan University where Lee Duu-Jong is a professor of chemical engineering
A high-profile chemical engineering professor at the National Taiwan University (NSU) has been fined TWD300,000 (£7700) by Taiwan’s education ministry for leading research programmes sponsored by the Chinese government without official approval from the island’s authorities. These rules are intended to protect Taiwan from a so-called ‘brain drain’ to the mainland.
Lee Duu-Jong – whose research focuses on industrial wastewater treatment, biomass energy and environment management – asserts that he was not involved in the research in question and was unaware that he had been named as lead on the Chinese projects, according to
Academics urge tighter rules on China links
CHINESE GRANTS: National security agencies should charge professors who accept illegal funding from Beijing, as they could be a threat to security, academics said
By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Academics called for stiffer penalties and criminal charges against professors who take unauthorized grants from China after the Ministry of Education on Thursday fined National Taiwan University (NTU) chemical engineering professor Lee Duu-jong (李篤中).
Fan Shih-ping (范世平), a National Taiwan Normal University professor of East Asia Studies, on Thursday said that Taiwan-China academic exchanges often occur in a legal gray zone, as Chinese research institutes are more often than not state affiliates with Chinese Communist Party representatives on their staff.
2021/02/18 15:47 NTU chemical engineering professor Lee Duu-jong. NTU chemical engineering professor Lee Duu-jong. (CNA photo) TAIPEI (Taiwan News) A National Taiwan University (NTU) professor has been found to be leading research programs sponsored by the Chinese government without approval from Taiwan s Ministry of Education (MOE). In a statement released on Thursday (Feb. 18), the MOE said Lee Duu-jong (李篤中), a chemical engineering professor at NTU, had applied for research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China through the Harbin Institute of Technology since 2009. It pointed out that he had taken on the lead role in three Chinese research programs without notifying the Taiwanese authorities.
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