ALBUQUERUE, N.M. — A scientist for a U.S. laboratory in New Mexico is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday on charges that he lied about contact he had with a state-run program in China that seeks to draw foreign-educated talent. Prosecutors have described Thousand Talents as a program established by China to recruit people with access to and knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property. For years, it was known as one of many state initiatives aimed at reversing a decades-long brain drain in China. Chunzai Wang’s sentence came after he pleaded guilty to a charged of accepting a salary from another source while working for NOAA. The Albuquerque Journal reported that Lookman began working in 1999 at the laboratory in Los Alamos.

Source: National Post May 28, 2019 04:52 UTC