Harvard University

Chair of Chemistry and Biology Departments Arrested over Suspicion of Ties to Communist China

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"A Harvard University chemist, an ex-Coca-Cola Co. scientist and a University of Kansas researcher.

All three have been swept up in a U.S. crackdown on intellectual property theft sponsored by China and linked to the Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese government program to recruit overseas researchers.

The charges unveiled Tuesday against Harvard’s Charles Lieber — that he lied to U.S. investigators about his role in recruiting people to pass along scientific research to the Chinese government — mark a high-profile escalation of the Trump administration’s effort to root out economic espionage in academic institutions."