Applied mathematician Mingqing Xiao will enter a federal courtroom in Benton, Illinois, next week to face charges that he defrauded the U.S. government by failing to disclose his ties to Chinese universities alleged to have supported his research.
, is aimed at preventing the Chinese government from stealing intellectual property.
But opponents say they are still waiting for signs the government has changed course. “From where I sit, the demise of the China Initiative is greatly exaggerated,” says Peter Zeidenberg, an attorney for Franklin Tao, a University of Kansas, Lawrence, chemical engineer convicted earlier this month in a decision that some legal experts thinkLegal observers say the outcome of Xiao’s upcoming trial could shape whether the government’s effort is ultimately seen as justified or unfair.
The government’s tactics in the Xiao case resemble those it has used against other academic scientists under the China Initiative. DOJ officials haven’t said how they got wind of Xiao’s alleged criminal violations. But early on 2 December 2020, FBI and Department of Homeland Security agents visited his home on the pretext of looking into a separate case involving a visa violation.
“He did it out of the goodness of his heart, and because he was so committed to living in small-town America,” says Jonathan Wiesen, a history professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, whose children attended the Saturday academy when Wiesen was on the SIU faculty.
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