A senior NASA scientist has been sentenced to 30 days in prison, months after he pleaded guilty to lying about his ties to a program backed by the Chinese regime designed to harvest talents from the West and transfer intellectual property to China. Meyya Meyyappan, 66, of Pacifica, California, was sentenced on Wednesday for making…

A biomedical professor has been sentenced to 37 months in prison for carrying out a scheme to use millions of dollars in federal grant money to advance research in China, according to the Justice Department. Zheng Songguo, a former professor at Ohio State University (OSU), pleaded guilty in November to lying on his National Institutes…

Making a greater effort to attract top experts from around the world was listed as a priority in China’s 14th Five-Year-Plan that was just passed in the regime’s recent Two Sessions meeting in Beijing on March 11. When talking to Radio Free Asia, American-based Chinese economist Cheng Xiaonong said the new five-year plan is an…

A senior NASA scientist pleaded guilty on Wednesday to lying about his ties with a Chinese-backed program designed to harvest talents from the West and transfer intellectual property to China, the Justice Department announced on Jan. 13. Meyya Meyyappan, 66, joined NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) in 1996 and has been the chief scientist…