Multiple university academics were arrested, indicted, or sentenced in 2020 over their alleged China ties.
Multiple professors and researchers have been exposed for their alleged ties to China in 2020. Ranging from allegedly lying to federal authorities, to attempting to steal proprietary research and information, the past months have shown several alleged secret Chinese agents working in American higher education.
1. Chinese national arrested for smuggling Harvard cancer research in a sock
In January, Chinese national and Harvard University medical student Zhaosong Zheng was arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle cancer research, which the university had been working on for years.
He was reported to have received multiple payments from the Chinese Scholarship Council. FBI agent Kara Spice stated, “I believe, based on my training and experience, that Zheng’s appointment at (Beth Israel) was not an accident, and that he was knowingly gathering and collecting intellectual property from BIDMC, possibly on behalf of the Chinese government.”
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