US prosecutors move to drop cases against Chinese researchers
by Leila Miller and Del Quentin Wilber, Los Angeles Times
Jul 23, 2021
2 minutes
The Justice Department moved in recent days to drop charges against four researchers at California universities accused of hiding their ties to the Chinese military, a blow to U.S. efforts to battle Beijing’s efforts to steal U.S. national security and business secrets.
On Thursday, federal prosecutors in Sacramento, California, asked a judge to dismiss the case of Juan Tang, a cancer researcher at UC Davis who had
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