The now ceased-China Initiative ushered in the resurgence of questioning the loyalty of foreign scientists and scholars. And similar to past outcomes, the U.S. has lost many brilliant minds that were working to contribute to the global good at our companies and universities.
A former Chicago graduate student and member of the US Army Reserve convicted of acting as an illegal agent for China appears to be part of a “fish-at-the-bottom-of-the-ocean” operation in which seemingly ordinary recruits are nudged into positions of usefulness by Beijing’s state security apparatus, analysts said. Ji Chaoqun, 31, worked on behalf of a “high-level intelligence officer” in the.
China-born MIT professor Gang Chen, whose name was cleared earlier this year following a high-profile investigation into his alleged China ties, has led a team to discover what they say is the best semiconductor ever found. In a paper published.
MIT professor Gang Chen and colleagues say cubic boron arsenide conducts heat 10 times better than silicon. Chen was investigated under a US government programme for allegedly hiding connections to China, but the charges against him were dropped earlier this year.