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    Police work or racial profiling? Chinese scholars say they're being unfairly tagged as possible spies

    by Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times Jul 25, 2019 5 minutes

    With three patents and more than 300 research papers to his name, Xiaoxing Xi was the respected chairman of Temple University's physics department.

    That is until May 2015, when FBI agents burst into his home outside Philadelphia with guns drawn and accused him of being a spy. He was hauled away in handcuffs in front of his wife and young daughters, fingerprinted and strip-searched. He also was threatened with 80 years in prison and a $1 million fine.

    Four months later, federal prosecutors dropped the charges after experts provided affidavits that the information Xi sent to scientists in China was widely known and publicly available on the internet. Federal authorities offered no apology, no explanation and no compensation - leaving Xi struggling to rebuild his shattered life.

    Xi's case and several others like it

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