Harvard’s Chemistry Chair Charged on Alleged Undisclosed Ties to China.
Charles Lieber allegedly lied to Defense Department, NIH about
Chinese government funding WRT participation in China’s Thousand Talents Plan,
Wall Street Journal ^ | January 28, 2020 | Aruna Viswanatha and Kate O’Keeffe / FR Posted by karpov
The chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday on allegations that he did not disclose Chinese government funding he received, in an escalation of U.S. efforts to counter what officials describe as Beijing’s aggressive recruitment at U.S. universities.
The professor, Charles Lieber, allegedly lied to the Defense Department and the National Institutes of Health about his participation in China’s Thousand Talents Plan, the complaint said.
U.S. authorities have raised alarms in particular about the so-called talent programs run by the Chinese government, which officials say create conflicts of interest and offer incentives to bring intellectual property back to China. (Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Six Prominent U.S. Universities Failed To Report A Combined Total Of 1.3 Billion In Foreign Funding
A recent report from the Clarion Project shows a huge amount of foreign funding that comes from countries like China, Qatar, and Russia. Six prominent U.S. universities failed to report a combined total of 1.3 billion in foreign funding, according to the Department of Education (DOE).
The Department of Education (DoED) is conducting an investigation into foreign governments funding U.S. universities, and they have found that governments such as Russia, China and Qatar (a huge donor to the Clinton Library Fund) have given them a staggering $1.3 billion.
These are the preliminary findings in an ongoing investigation into six different universities, and Education Secretary Betsy Devos believes that much more money could be discovered before the investigation concludes.
The universities under review include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Texas A&M, Cornell, the University of Maryland, Georgetown (Bill Clinton’s alma mater), and Rutgers. Acting general counsel Reed Rubinstein called the initial findings very “disturbing” in a letter to the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the Education Department.
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