Editor’s note for Monday, December 20, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: The Wall Street Journal has a report on the U.S. Justice Department's deeply flawed China Initiative, focusing on MIT nanotechnology professor Chen Gang and others who have come under scrutiny for allegedly failing to disclose China ties.
The U.S. governmentโs deeply flawed China Initiative is in the news yet again, as the Wall Street Journal has a detailed report on the case of MIT nanotechnology professor Chรฉn Gฤng ้ๅ, who was accused early this year of failing to disclose China ties. U.S. Justice Department officials โhave discussed whether to drop additional cases against academics, including Mr. Chen,โ in the wake of a number of dropped or failed prosecutions.
Meanwhile, the WSJ says, โMore than half a dozen top researchers of Chinese descent said in interviews they had either moved from posts at U.S. universities to China or were looking for a chance to do so, saying they feared becoming a target of what they viewed as Justice Department overreach.โ
See also:
- Opinion: Gang Chen’s case should be the end of the DOJโs ‘China Initiative’ / Legal scholar Maggie Lewis on The China Project (January 2021)
- The #chinainiative topic on The China Project
Our word of the day is Hong Kong Legislative Council election results ้ฆๆธฏ็ซๆณไผ้ไธพ็ปๆ xiฤnggวng lรฌfว huรฌ xuวnjว jiรฉguว.
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
