Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Over 1,000 Chinese Military-Linked Researchers Have Left US Since Federal Crackdown: DOJ Official
Epoch Times ^ | 12/02/2020 | Cathy He

Posted on 12/02/2020 5:18:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind

More than 1,000 Chinese military-linked researchers have left the United States since authorities arrested several suspected undercover Chinese military officers over the summer, according to a senior Justice Department official.

Earlier this year, at least four Chinese researchers were arrested and charged with visa fraud for allegedly lying on their applications about their status as members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), the official name of the Chinese military. One of those researchers was harbored by the Chinese consulate in San Francisco for weeks before he was eventually arrested in late July.

A Chinese visiting student also was indicted on similar charges in January.

John C. Demers, assistant attorney general for national security, said those arrests “were just the tip of the iceberg,” leading to an investigation that uncovered a vast network of suspected undercover PLA researchers across the country.

“Between those … arrests, between the dozens of interviews that the bureau [FBI] did with other individuals who were here in similar circumstances, and then, ultimately, the closure of the Houston consulate to disrupt both foreign influence activity and economic espionage activity, more than 1,000 PLA-affiliated Chinese researchers left the country,” Demers said during a virtual discussion at the Aspen Cyber Summit on Dec. 2.

“They were part of a Chinese government effort to send these individuals here, and to send them here without disclosing their identity.”

In response to the arrests and investigations by U.S. authorities, the Chinese regime instructed the researchers to continue hiding their PLA connections, Demers said.

Court documents filed in July said that the regime was instructing the PLA-linked students to destroy evidence and was coordinating efforts to evacuate them from the United States, after it realized that U.S. authorities were closing in.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; education; espionage; military; research; spying
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

1 posted on 12/02/2020 5:18:11 PM PST by SeekAndFind
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

1,000!? Wow! Good riddance.


2 posted on 12/02/2020 5:20:58 PM PST by madison10
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

They mean Chinese spies.


3 posted on 12/02/2020 5:24:16 PM PST by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Chinese spy: “Silly chinese spies. They may have mastered art of the noodle, but not the art of disguise.”

Cia dep dir bullock: “good one butch!”

Chinese spy: “but seriously, anyone have those nuclear launch codes?”

/american dad


4 posted on 12/02/2020 5:25:05 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Is Di Fi’s driver still around?


5 posted on 12/02/2020 5:27:14 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

CROSSROADS:
China Waging Political War (and BIOLOGICAL WAR: COVID)!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/g4ya5l6S9cci/
Excellent 23 minute interview with China expert Rick Fisher. If short on time,run out to 17 min. mark and you will understand WHY it’s vital that we have a strong America first POTUS. We will deeply regret turning OUR government over to a paid Chinese suck-up Biden MALadministration. We may never recover from the damage Biden/Harris will do...especially if the Democrats take the Senate. Georgia..you LISTENING??


6 posted on 12/02/2020 5:31:53 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

They’ll be back...


7 posted on 12/02/2020 5:32:31 PM PST by Common Sense 101
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: madison10

they have an army here..


8 posted on 12/02/2020 5:33:02 PM PST by aces (and )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: aces

“they have an army here..“

Heh...in a couple of months Biden will make the U.S. Army their army too.


9 posted on 12/02/2020 5:35:42 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (I did not leave my country, my country left me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

10 posted on 12/02/2020 5:37:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (The aboe is not a statment of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Trump has done a phenomenal job.

If Biden gets it, it’ll be bring back better.


11 posted on 12/02/2020 5:48:05 PM PST by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

1,000 Chinese ‘researchers’ were here? Who let them in, and how many still are here?


12 posted on 12/02/2020 5:53:18 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (We might be DEPLORABLES, but we don't CHEAT like Dems)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
President Trump should do what President Obama did with the Russian diplomats and boot put the majority of mainland China's diplomats in one swoop.
13 posted on 12/02/2020 6:04:19 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

So who are the Americans clearing them that are being accountable? (Or not clearing them properly?)


14 posted on 12/02/2020 6:06:08 PM PST by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ealgeone

If Biden wins, they will be back, in spades.


15 posted on 12/02/2020 6:18:02 PM PST by TexasM1A
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

related:
“William Evanina, chief of the counterintelligence branch of the office of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, told the same event Chinese agents were already targeting personnel of the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, as well as “people close” to Biden’s team.

He did not elaborate.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chinese-researchers-quit-u-s-agents-target-biden-team-u-s-officials/ar-BB1bzqFH?ocid=msedgntp


16 posted on 12/02/2020 6:18:50 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Right after they voted for Comrade Biden...


17 posted on 12/02/2020 6:19:46 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Democrats are corruption superspreaders.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

The Chinese are like locusts!


18 posted on 12/02/2020 7:06:06 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

Were they frisked before leaving?


19 posted on 12/02/2020 7:42:57 PM PST by 353FMG
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind
I have been having dental work done at a large dental school here in AZ. It was a year long process, that wrapped up right around the tine Covid hit.

Well I would say 90% of the fairly large student body was Chinese or Asian of some sort.

I went back last week for a follow up and exam. I didn’t see one Asian student. It was very weird.

20 posted on 12/02/2020 7:47:36 PM PST by riri (All of my heroes are banned from the internet)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson