Liu conspired to fraudulently procure U.S. visas for Chinese officials

 9-17-19 

  Zhongsan Liu was arrested after a lengthy investigation into his role in directing a Chinese government front group in New Jersey called the China Association for International Exchange of Personnel (CAIEP), the Justice Department said in a statement.

  A criminal complaint in the case dated Sept. 13 also linked the visa fraud charges to a Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute at a U.S. university….From 2017 to this month Liu conspired to fraudulently procure U.S. visas for Chinese officials, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in a New York court.  Visas were obtained with the help of six universities in Massachusetts, Georgia, New Jersey, and elsewhere….The front group is engaged in recruiting U.S. scientists, academics, engineers, and other experts to support China's large-scale program of developing high-technology in China.  Liu has led the front group for 26 years….

  In reality, according to prosecutors, Liu made the arrangements "with the knowledge that, once in the United States, the CAIEP employees would not in fact principally conduct research on behalf of their sponsoring universities but rather would work full time for CAIEP."

  The criminal complaint quoted one Chinese official in an intercepted phone call stating that "if he/she is in a college or university and has a PhD degree, it will be very easy for us to give him/her a J-1 [visa]."

The Beijing recruitment effort is part of the Beijing-directed "Thousand Talents Plan" that recruits Chinese-Americans and others to sign contracts outlining specific research in China.

"That contractual obligation often resembles or even replicates the work the recruit performs or performed for his or her U.S.-based, or other overseas employer, thereby leveraging the recruit's knowledge and access to intellectual property obtained from U.S. and foreign businesses and government laboratories," the complaint says….

  "Chinese government sources claim over 44,000 highly skilled Chinese personnel have returned to China since 2009 through talent plans," the report said.  "As noted by China Daily, which is owned by the Chinese Communist Party:  ‘China has more than 300 entrepreneurial parks for students returned from overseas. More than 24,500 enterprises have been set up in the parks by over 67,000 overseas returnees.'"

  According to the Pentagon's latest annual report on the Chinese military, the Thousand Talents Plan is used to bolster the People's Liberation Army military buildup.  According to the Pentagon's latest annual report on the Chinese military, the Thousand Talents Plan is used to bolster the People's Liberation Army military buildup.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/fbi-arrests-chinese-official-for-visa-fraud/

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  Demers similarly highlighted that Beijing intended “to subvert American law to advance its own interests in diverting U.S. research and know-how to China,” in the press release.

 https://www.theepochtimes.com/beijings-recruitment-efforts-in-us-exposed-after-chinese-national-charged-with-visa-fraud_3085121.html

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