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When the Trump administration in 2018 unveiled a sweeping crackdown on economic espionage by the Chinese government, advocacy groups and academics raised concerns the effort could result in racial profiling and have a chilling effect on collaborations.
Then last week, federal prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against five Chinese researchers at U.S. universities accused of visa fraud, fueling fresh doubts about the China Initiative and bringing new calls for the Justice Department to end or revamp it.
The dismissals of the cases, which targeted scientists at such universities as UCLA, UC Davis, UC San Francisco and Stanford, represent an embarrassing setback in the federal government’s effort to combat Chinese economic espionage, which authorities say costs the U.S. economy at least $600 billion a year.
Feds abruptly drop visa fraud charges against Chinese military scientists
Prosecutors provided no explanation for the dismissals, but they reportedly came after evidence surfaced that a visa application question was not clear enough for Chinese military scientists to answer accurately.
In this Thursday, April 14, 2016 photo, a Chinese national flag flutters against the office buildings at the Shanghai Bund shrouded by pollution and fog in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Federal prosecutors this week abruptly dropped fraud charges against three Chinese researchers accused of lying on visa applications about their ties to the Chinese military.
In tersely worded documents filed in two federal court cases Friday, the Justice Department asked for charges to be dismissed against Chen Song, a former Stanford researcher, and Xin Wang, who worked at a U.S. government-funded lab at the University of California, San Francisco.
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