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17 articles matching the search query.
The China Initiative is dead, but its repercussions live on
Advocates say that dismantling the problems behind the initiative will require more work.
March 10, 2022 Source: The China Project
DOJ scraps the China Initiative
The United States Justice Department is ending its contentious Trump-era initiative, with plans to include other nations in its anti-espionage strategy. For many academics and activists, it’s a relief.
February 24, 2022 Source: The China Project
U.S. drops ‘China Initiative’ case against MIT professor
The U.S. Justice Department dropped its case against Chen Gang, the MIT nanotechnology professor whom it accused a year ago of failing to disclose China ties. The U.S. government “badly…misunderstood the details surrounding scientific and academic collaboration,” said Chen’s lawyer.
January 20, 2022 Source: The China Project
Inside the DOJ’s China Initiative with the MIT Technology Review
The Department of Justice launched the “China Initiative” two years ago to counter perceived “national security threats.” This week, Sinica talks to the investigative reporters who published a scathing indictment of the China Initiative in the MIT Technology Review.
December 23, 2021 Source: The China Project
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.
December 20, 2021 Source: The China Project
Another trial begins for the DOJ’s troubled China Initiative
Charles Lieber, the former head of Harvard University’s chemistry department, is now on trial accused of hiding financial ties to China. His is the latest case under the U.S. Department of Justice’s China Initiative, which has come under growing criticism for creating an atmosphere of fear among Chinese scientists.
December 14, 2021 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for Friday, December 3, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Evergrande and other developers sink deeper into distress over their debt; Apple Daily runs out of money in Taiwan; the U.S. Justice Department’s China Initiative is a mess, according to data obtained by MIT Tech Review; Ray Dalio dismisses concerns about human rights in China.
December 3, 2021 Source: The China Project
Editor’s note for Tuesday, September 28, 2021
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: NATO has the good idea to publish a Chinese-language readout of a high-level meeting; influential tech journalist Kara Swisher argues for a China-style crackdown in the U.S.; and faculty members at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, are demanding the reinstatement of Anming Hu, who was targeted by the China Initiative.
September 28, 2021 Source: The China Project
Calls to end ‘China Initiative’ intensify after Anming Hu acquittal
“The intentions behind the China Initiative might have served a purpose, but the program that is the China Initiative is a racial profiling witch hunt for theater and show that is ruining careers and turning peoples’ lives upside down.”
September 22, 2021 Source: The China Project
Chinese-born professor in Tennessee cleared of all spying charges in rebuke to U.S. Department of Justice
A federal judge found that the Department of Justice had failed to prove its case that Hu Anming, a nanotechnology professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, had committed wire fraud and made false statements.
September 10, 2021 Source: The China Project
A scientist’s future hangs in the balance after another failure of the China Initiative
Launched by the U.S. Department of Justice in 2018, the China Initiative is a government program gone rogue. Will it be shut down after the suspensions of half a dozen investigations ended without prosecution or any evidence of wrongdoing?
July 26, 2021 Source: The China Project
Gang Chen’s case should be the end of the DOJ’s ‘China Initiative’
The Department of Justice launched the “China Initiative” two years ago to counter perceived “national security threats.” But with the recent indictment of MIT professor Gang Chen — whose colleagues delivered a strong, coordinated show of support on his behalf — we have a clear example of how the policy fails.
January 26, 2021 Source: The China Project
MIT professors object to arrest of Chen Gang for failing to disclose China ties
After Chen Gang, a prominent professor of nanotechnology at MIT, was arrested for failing to disclose China ties and funding, roughly 100 of his fellow faculty members signed a letter objecting to the criminal complaints against him.
January 22, 2021 Source: The China Project
The China Initiative: The ethnic targeting of Chinese scientists and the subsequent brain drain
We talk to lawyers, academics and victims of the China Initiative for their perspective.
November 19, 2020 Source: The China Project
Scientists in the Crosshairs: What should Chinese and Chinese-American researchers do amid U.S. crackdown on ‘China ties’?
We interview experts and gather their best advice for how to avoid being wrongly prosecuted for non-disclosure and other administrative wrongdoings.
October 30, 2020 Source: The China Project
How the U.S. DOJ’s ‘China Initiative’ impacts Chinese-American scientists and researchers
Catherine X. Pan-Giordano is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP, which has a task force to advise clients regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s “China Initiative.”
July 1, 2020 Source: The China Project
The U.S. Sinophobia Tracker: How America is becoming unfriendly to Chinese students, scientists, and scholars
Tracking paranoid rhetoric, visa restrictions, and the targeted policing of China-connected research, which combine to create a hostile atmosphere for Chinese people in the U.S.
July 3, 2019 Source: The China Project