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Posted on 05/02/2026 3:58:03 AM PDT by DFG
An American scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments from China while he was at Harvard University has rebuilt his research lab in Shenzhen to pursue technology the Chinese government has identified as a national priority: embedding electronics into the human brain.
Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world’s leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and restoring movement in paralyzed patients. But it also has potential military applications: Scientists at China’s People’s Liberation Army have investigated brain interfaces as a way to engineer super soldiers by boosting mental agility and situational awareness, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
Lieber was found guilty by a jury and convicted in December 2021 of making false statements to federal investigators about his ties to a Chinese state program to recruit overseas talent, and tax offenses related to payments he received from a Chinese university. He served two days in prison and six months under house arrest, and was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay $33,600 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. During the case, his defense said he was suffering from an incurable lymphoma, which was in remission, and he was fighting for his life.
Three years after he was sentenced, Reuters has learned that Lieber is now overseeing China’s state-funded i-BRAIN, or the Institute for Brain Research, Advanced Interfaces and Neurotechnologies, with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard. The lab is an arm of the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation, or SMART.
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We used to shoot traitors.
I’d like to know if this guy used his US Passport to leave the country. Part of punishing people for these types of crimes needs to be the seizure of their US passport.
Yes, they could get a fake passport, but we cant make it easy for them.
“ with access to dedicated nanofabrication equipment and primate research infrastructure unavailable to him at Harvard. ”
Knowing China’s history of civil rights abuses, the good doctor probably also has unlimited access to human “volunteers” for experimentation.
FTA - he’s a tax cheat. Which is much worse in the eyes of the IRS.
“ During the case, his defense said he was suffering from an incurable lymphoma, which was in remission, and he was fighting for his life.”
Obviously untrue. Why aren’t attorneys held accountable for outright lying in court?
How long before the Chicoms mandate their brain chip for all their citizens? What could possibly go wrong?
I don’t hate him as much as I hate Democrats.
You can’t stop people from leaving by just seizing their passport, if a foreign country wants to admit them and doesn’t care about their US passport status.
Today, Lieber is working as a professor at a Chinese university, the job that he took last week, according to reports. He now leads a brain-computer lab in China.
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The US justice system goofed, by making Dr. Lieber have to defect to China, taking his technology with him!
I know that.
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