![]() ![]() That directive prohibited individuals from studying or conducting research in the US if they were found to have links with the Chinese government or its military.īill Evanina, the US government’s top counterintelligence official, said at the summit that of the 1000-plus Chinese researchers who left the US he is ‘most concerned about the graduate-level students’. ![]() It appears that those departures were in addition to about a thousand Chinese graduate and postgraduate students whose visas were revoked by the State Department back in September under a ‘ proclamation’ announced by outgoing President Trump. ‘Between those five or six arrests, and the dozens of interviews that the did with individuals who were here under similar circumstances … more than 1000 -affiliated Chinese researchers left the country,’ he claimed. Those handful of arrests were ‘just the tip of the iceberg’, Demers stated. ![]() They all had US visas but hadn’t disclosed their affiliations with the Chinese Communist party or military in their visa applications, Demers explained at a 2 December virtual summit of the Aspen Institute, a global non-profit think tank based in Washington DC. This summer, the Department of Justice has had at least five researchers from China arrested. This exodus comes as the Department of Justice has intensified its investigations of espionage by scientists at US institutions who are secretly affiliated with the Chinese government or military. More than a thousand visiting researchers from China working at US universities have left the country since the summer, according to John Demers, chief of the Department of Justice’s national security division. ![]()
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