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| University of Kansas professor faces 20 years in federal prison after he is convicted of hiding his ties to the Chinese government while working on US-funded research |
| 2022-04-09 |
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
He was one of two dozen academics charged under the US Department of Justice 'China Initiative' which fell apart following several failed prosecutions and criticism that it chilled academic research and fueled bias against Asians. Tao, who was born in China and moved to the US in 2002, began working in 2014 at the University of Kansas Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis on projects involving renewable energy, including shale gas, funded by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship after applying to participate in one of China's 'talent plans'. As part of that program he traveled to China to set up a laboratory and recruit staff for Fuzhou University, telling the University of Kansas he was in Germany instead. The Justice Department says China uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it. Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it Prosecutors alleged that in 2018, Tao signed a five-year contract with Fuzhou University in China that required him to be a full-time employee with the Changjiang Professorship. The Justice Department says China (pictured, President Xi Jinping) uses those programs to entice foreign researchers to share their knowledge with it Prosecutor Adam Barry said Tao falsely in reports filed with the school claimed no conflicts of interest, describing it as 'an elaborate lie' to defraud the university, the DOE and NSF. Tao also caused KU to submit to the US government hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursement requests for expenditures associated with research grants he was working on, according to the Department of Justice. But Zeidenberg argued that Tao was merely 'moonlighting' and stressed throughout the trial that Tao remained such a prolific researcher that the University of Kansas honored him in April 2019 - just months before his arrest. He contended that Tao completed all the research he received grants to conduct and said his work in China was not against the rules because he was not paid for it. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #2 At KU all they had to do was look. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-04-09 11:58 |
| #1 Gee, I don't know but maybe a little focus on "profiling" Chinese named individuals might be a consideration? Near as I can tell the CCP is/has stolen an awful lot of our stuff and intellectual property? |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2022-04-09 11:49 |