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The US Department of Justice filed motions late last week to dismiss cases against five Chinese scientists accused of visa fraud.
The scientists were arrested last summer. The DOJ said at the time that they had each hidden or falsified information regarding their affiliation with the Chinese military—the People’s Liberation Army (PLA)—on their visa applications.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the arrested researchers included Juan Tang, a visiting cancer researcher at the University of California, Davis; Lei Guan, a visiting artificial intelligence researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles; Xin Wang, a biomedical researcher at the University of California, San Francisco; Song Chen, a visiting neurologist at Stanford University; and Kaikai Zhao, a graduate student in artificial intelligence at Indiana University.
The researchers were among a larger group of Chinese researchers prosecuted under the auspices of the “China Initiative,” a Trump-era effort designed to ...
