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Harvard Chemistry Chair & Two Chinese Nationals Arrested For Lying About China Ties, Smuggling "Biological Material"

Posted by freedomforall 5 years, 3 months ago to Government
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Lieber was reportedly paid $50,000 a month by Wuhan University of Technology for participating in its "Thousand Talents" program, and was given more than $1.5 million to establish a lab and do research at Wuhan University of Technology, according to federal prosecutors in Boston, according to WSJ.

According to prosecutors, Lieber deliberately lied to defense department officials about his "foreign research collaborations."

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  • Posted by $ jbrenner 5 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Oh, my goodness! I want to know more details about this. The salary and living expenses that Prof. Charles Lieber of Harvard was getting at Wuhan are probably less, not more, than he is worth. He invented the process for making nanowires contact each other in a controllable manner. That would be today's equivalent to Rearden Metal. I refer to Professor Lieber multiple times in my nanotechnology class.

    Some of you may remember Borg technology from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Lieber has pioneered the biological/electronic interface.

    I MUST read the corporate espionage story. It appears that the Chinese are actually paying for this technology instead of stealing it.

    Lieber's technological contributions put him in the John Galt category. I haven't met Lieber, but he is unquestionably one of the top ten people in nanotech in the world.
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  • Posted by exceller 5 years, 3 months ago
    https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/har...

    “a federal court unsealed indictments against Harvard professor and Chemistry Department Head Charles Lieber, along with two Chinese nationals.”

    “In conjunction with the program, Mr. Lieber became a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology, according to the complaint. For “significant periods” from 2012 to 2017, his contract called for a $50,000 a month salary on top of $150,000 in living expenses paid by WUT, it said. He was also awarded more than $1.5 million by WUT and the Chinese government to set up a research lab, it said.”

    “The Trump Administration has made cracking down on Chinese academic and corporate espionage a priority, and has made several arrests of Chinese nationals working in critical roles funneling info back to China. But this is probably the most high-profile case to date, since one of the suspects is a pioneering American scientist.

    Interestingly enough, not long after news of the arrests hit the press, another report surfaced claiming China had rejected President Trump's offer of assistance to contain the coronavirus - even as Wuhan is in desperate need of supplies.

    Is that just a coincidence?”

    Well, this may shed a light on the coronavirus epidemic origins.
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