https://www.npr.org/2020/02/14/806128410...c-openness

Interesting case. Its more about disclosure and possible fraud rather than espionage.

"...The federal prosecutor who is pursuing the case against Harvard chemist Charles Lieber agrees.

"All the Thousand Talents program does is induce people who are doing research in the United States to come to China, and do the same research, by offering them money," says Andrew Lelling, the United States attorney for the District of Massachusetts. "And that's not illegal, per se."

But Lelling says researchers have to disclose the money they receive to funding agencies and to their home university. That's in part because federal research agencies don't want to pay for the same science twice — in the U.S. and in China.

The criminal complaint against Lieber alleges that he lied to both the government and Harvard about his involvement in the Thousand Talents Plan. According to the complaint, Lieber was involved with the program from at least 2012 to 2017. His contract called for a salary as high as $50,000 a month, along with about $150,000 per year for living expenses and $1.5 million to establish a lab at the Wuhan University of Technology...."

There’s something very coincidental to this whole thing.. He had two students working for him with ties to the Chinese army. One was arrested at the airport with biomedical materials. And Wuhan is ground zero for what again?