US Gov’t racially motivated witch-hunt lawsuit dismissed by Federal Judge against MIT professor Gang Chen accused of hiding research ties to China 聯邦法官駁回美國政府針對麻省理工學院教授陳剛隱瞞與中國的研究聯繫的種族動機訴訟

Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: I am relieved and happy that the overzealous economic espionage case against Prof. Chen Gang of MIT brought by the FBI and the National Security Division (NSD) of the DOJ under the 2018 mIsguided, ill-conceived, and racially biased “China Initiative” program was dismissed in the federal district court in Boston this morning and the personal and professional ordeals are over. The China Initiative program was conceived and promoted by China-bashers, like Peter Navarro and Matthew Potttinger, of the National Security staff of Donald Trump’s White House, himself a racial bigot. They obviously did not understand science and scientific exchange and cooperation and had no knowledge of how Chinese in the U.S. were treated and abused throughout the history of the U.S. , especially since the advent of the Cold War.

It is wrong for The Washington Post article below to view the abuses of the China Initiative as a new policy initiative that began in 2018. Dr. Qian Xuesen (1905-2009) was the fist among some 4000 Chinese scientists and scholars to be held against their will essentially as hostages and denied their rights to return to China upon completion of their studies in the U.S. Qian was known as “The Father of Chinese Rocket” in China and the founding director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA and a professor of Aeronautic Engineering at at the California Institute of Technology. He was falsely accused of being a Communist, stripped of all his contracts he had with all three branches of U.S. military for developing rockets and missiles, placed under house arrest from 1950-55, and eventually in 1955 used by the U.S. government in an exchange for a dozen of American POWs in China from the Korean War. Dr. Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear engineer of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, was another celebrated victim racial profiling and government wrongful prosecution and persecution in 1999 for alleged espionage and placed in solitary confinement for nine months without bail, trial, and conviction in violation fo constitutional prohibition against “cruel and unusual punishment.” Even before the Chen Gang case, there were several high-profile prosecutions against Chinese American scientists, like, Dr. Sherry Chen of the National Weather Bureau and Prof. Xi Xiaoxing, chair of Physics at Temple University. In all these cases, the government did not have a shred of evidence against the accused.

The China Initiative is nothing but a government effort to use Chinese American and Chinese scientists and engineers as scapegoats in order to generate domestic propaganda and repression for the sole purpose of inciting fear and hatred against China among American people and to justify our military, political, and economic aggression against the peaceful rise of China. It is a fishing expedition carried out at the expense of the rights and safety of Chinese Americans and a wasteful diversion of our scarce national resources for needless military buildup at the expense of the well beings of the U.S.

Demand an end to the China Initiative and drop all pending cases driven by racial prejudice.

End racial scapegoating of Chinese Americans and Chinese who have been making contributions to the U.S. with their brain and knowledge.
End fear-mongering and the China containment policy.

Return to the policy of engagement and cooperation.

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Racial Profiling Among Scientists of Chinese Descent and Consequences for the U.S. Scientific Community

Committee of 100, a non-profit membership organization of prominent Chinese Americans, and the University of Arizona, one of the leading research universities in the country, will unveil the findings from a new joint research project focused on race and ethnicity in science and research. Designed to understand how research and academics have been affected by the limitations that the U.S. government has placed on international exchange with China, the research will have a special focus on the impact on professors and researchers who are of Chinese descent. https://www.committee100.org/initiatives/racial-profiling-among-scientists-of-chinese-descent-and-consequences-for-the-us-scientific-community/