U.S. prosecutors recommend dropping case against MIT professor over China ties 美國檢察官建議撤銷對麻省理工學院教授與中國關係的訴訟. 加州大學伯克利分校王靈智教授：令人驚訝的是，每個與陳鋼案有關的政府官員突然無話可說。 我很高興麻省理工學院的管理人員和教職員工為陳教授辯護.
Professor Ling-chi Wang of UC Berkeley: It is amazing how suddenly every government official connected to the Chen Gang case has nothing to say. I am glad MIT administration and faculty defended Prof. Chen.
It is time for DOJ to shut down the China Initiative and close the shop.
Unfortunately, President Biden is not likely to do that because in doing so, he will lose one of his important tools to incite fear and hatred of China and Chinese in the U.S. and across the world, a cornerstone of his aggressive policy of containment of China.
BOSTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Prosecutors have recommended that the U.S. Justice Department drop charges against a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor accused of concealing his ties to China when seeking federal grant money, a person familiar with the matter said Friday.
Federal prosecutors in Boston decided to seek dismissal of the case against Chinese-born mechanical engineer and nanotechnologist Gang Chen. It was the latest setback for a crackdown on Chinese influence within U.S. research.
Boston prosecutors recommended the case’s dismissal in recent weeks based on new information, the person said, adding the Justice Department has not made a final decision.
He was accused of failing to disclose, among other things, that he served as an “overseas expert” to the Chinese government and sat on the advisory board of Shenzhen’s Southern University of Science and Technology, or SUSTech, when applying for a U.S. Department of Energy grant.
But Brian Kelly, a lawyer for Chen at Nixon Peabody, has said last week that “nothing significant was omitted on his application and several of the government’s allegations were simply wrong.”
MIT President Rafael Reif has defended its $25 million collaboration SUSTech as furthering MIT’s research mission. Faculty in a letter last year rallied around Chen, saying the case against him vilified normal research activities.
Kelly and co-counsel Rob Fisher had no comment on Friday. MIT declined to comment. Wyn Hornbuckle, a Justice Department spokesperson, had no comment on Chen’s case.
The Wall Street Journal first reported the recommendation.
Chen was charged in January 2021 as part of the department’s “China Initiative,” launched during former President Donald Trump’s administration to counter suspected Chinese economic espionage and research theft.
Targets included university researchers. A Harvard professor, Charles Lieber, last month was convicted of lying about his ties to a China-run recruitment program. He is expected to appeal.
Critics say the initiative chilled academic research and targeted Chinese researchers through racial profiling. And despite the Harvard win, several other cases have faltered.
A Tennessee professor was acquitted by a judge last year following a mistrial, and prosecutors dropped charges against six other researchers.
President Joe Biden’s administration has continued the initiative, though Hornbuckle said the Justice Department is reviewing its approach, a review that should be completed in the coming weeks.
Rachael Rollins, newly appointed U.S. attorney in Massachusetts, during a meeting with reporters on Thursday would not address whether prosecutors should stop bringing China Initiative cases.
But she said “the government will always look to see whether we can prove our case at various points.”
Video: Chinese Spokesperson debunks the true faces of the fabricators of Xinjiang lies by US funded and produced propaganda 中國發言人揭穿美國資助和製作的宣傳新疆謊言製造者的真實面目
Wang Wenbin: For some time now, US politicians, in collusion with some anti-China organizations and individuals, have been unscrupulously spreading and hyping up the lie of “genocide” and “forced labor” in Xinjiang for their ulterior political purpose. Today, I would like to take some time to share with you my experience of debunking lies on Xinjiang and avoid being misled so that you can all see the true face of those who fabricated those lies. 汪文斌：一段時間以來，美國政客與一些反華組織和個人勾結，在新疆肆無忌憚地散佈和炒作“種族滅絕”和“強迫勞動”的謊言，以達到別有用心的政治目的。 今天，我想花點時間和大家分享一下我在新疆揭穿謊言的經驗，避免被誤導，讓大家看看那些編造謊言的人的真面目。
Christine Lee: Lawyer, mother-of-two, pillar of Anglo-Chinese community … and spy, really!? 律師，兩個孩子的母親，英國華人社區的支柱……和間諜，真的！？
There are many like her in US doing it for US-China Relations, not stealing trade or state secrets but to strengthen ties between the 2 nations for people and friendships are now being labeled as spies just like many Chinese scientists in US are charged as spies for one simple reason racially motivated because they are Chinese. 美國有很多像她這樣為美中關係做事，不是竊取貿易或國家機密，而是為了加强两國人民和友誼的聯繫，現在被貼上間諜的標籤，就像許多在美國的中國科學家被指控為間諜一樣 出於一個簡單的原因，出於種族動機, 因為他們是中國人.
CSTO’s mission accomplished in Kazakhstan – Putin had recently directly accused the US of instigating and supporting the Islamist insurgency in Chechnya and said there is empirical evidence of it. 集體安全條約組織在哈薩克斯坦完成了任務 – 普京最近直接指責美國煽動和支持車臣的伊斯蘭叛亂，並表示有經驗證據表明這一點 BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR JAN 14, 2022
***This seems to indicate that days of victorious US “Color Revolutions” are over. 這似乎表明美國“顏色革命”勝利的日子已經結束.
Most of the potential target nations have now figured out how these US “Color Revolutions” work, and how to counter them. This is common in the history of warfare; when a weapon, tactic, or strategy is new, they tend to be most successful because their enemies are unprepared and don’t know how to deal with it. But as time goes on, it becomes better understood and people figure out ways to counter it. Think how both nonviolence and guerilla warfare developed to counter colonial powers with their vastly superior firepower, for example. What’s interesting is how there now seems to be two main types of strategies against “Color Revolutions,” the “wait them out” (this isn’t the best description, but I couldn’t think of a better phrase) strategy used successfully in Nicaragua and Hong Kong, and the “crush them hard and fast” strategy that CSTO just used in Kazakhstan. It will be very interesting to see how both these strategies are used in the future, as the US (always a slow learner) tries “Color Revolutions” in other places and gets its asx kicked.
***I maybe presumptuous, but I think HK helped break the spell for the US’ attempts at color revolution. US and UK made a mistake trying to take on China. China outsmarted them. For the HK people It was a big price to pay for the 18 months of suffering but it actually sped up the return of HK as a province of China in preparation for 2046. 我可能有些冒昧，但我認為香港幫助打破了美國嘗試顏色革命的魔咒。 美國和英國在試圖與中國對抗時犯了一個錯誤。 中國比他們聰明。 對香港人來說，18個月的苦難付出了巨大的代價，但它實際上加速了香港作為中國的一個省的回歸，為2046年做準備
Chinese flag raising implemented in all the official events is now extended to in colleges and universities. The British marches are replaced by China marches. The speed of integration is picked up rapidly without the usual objections coming from the far right wingers. Old British relics are being removed. Thank goodness.
The people of HK are now learning to live in the “One country,” not just the “two systems.”
That phenomenon wouldn’t have happened so soon if not for the failed 2019 color revolution.
What happened in HK during 2019 although much covered up by the Western media is a learning lesson for other countries vulnerable to color revolutions.
The rules-based order that Western foreign policy insists on raises a fundamental question – who sets the standards, norms and rules? 西方外交政策所堅持的基於規則的秩序引發了一個根本問題 – 誰來製定標準、規範和規則？
All Chinese scientists in STEM will be targeted. The criminal action involving Gang Chen, Chinese-born mechanical engineer and expert in nanotechnology prosecuted under race based China Initiative by the US Justice Department in 2018.
Video: How to understand “Modernization” in China? Justin Podur from Canada interview with Vijay Prashad
We take the opportunity afforded by a recent article falsifying Vijay Prashad’s views to make a deep dive into the difference between liberal, imperialist, and socialist or communist views of “modernization”. With many examples from Afghanistan and India to Canada, the US, and China, we talk about arguments about “modernization”.
We also talk about the role of these types of articles in left-wing media, why every few months there’s something in left media about “tankies”, the US hybrid war on China and the Cold War and imperial strategies.
Johnson Choi Biz 