A Harvard University department chair and two Chinese nationals who were researchers at Boston University and a Boston hospital were charged on Tuesday with lying about their alleged links to the Chinese government. In August, federal prosecutors charged a University of Kansas researcher for failing to disclose ties to a Chinese university. Harvard and Boston University said they were cooperating with investigators. “The charges brought by the U.S. government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious,” Harvard said in a statement. China has been implicated in more than 80% of all economic espionage charges the Justice Department has brought and is connected to 60% of all trade secret theft cases the department has brought charges in since 2012, it said.

Source: National Post January 29, 2020 02:48 UTC