BOSTON—A Harvard University nanotechnology professor faces trial on Tuesday on U.S. charges that he lied to authorities about his ties to a China-run recruitment program and concealed funding he received from the Chinese government. Jury selection is slated to begin in Boston federal court in the trial of Charles Lieber, an ex-chair of Harvard’s chemistry department charged in the highest-profile case to result from a U.S. crackdown on Chinese influence within universities. Lieber, 62, has pleaded not guilty to six false statement and tax charges. His lawyer, Marc Mukasey, said Lieber “didn’t hide anything, and he didn’t get paid as the government alleges.” Prosecutors charged Lieber in January 2020 as part of the U.S. Justice Department’s “China Initiative,” an effort launched during former President Donald Trump’s administration to combat Chinese economic espionage and research theft. Prosecutors said Lieber in 2011 became a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology and …