recruiting thousands of Chinese trained in USA schools

  

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 3-10-18    One of the means whereby the United Front efforts targets overseas scholars is through the “Thousand Talents Program,” a recruitment campaign to attract those working in the science and technology fields.  The CCP has poached talent from top universities, research institutes, and renowned firms, including Zhu Huilong from IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Center (SRDC); Chen Dongmin, former chief strategic officer of the U.S.-based semiconductor firm, MEMSIC; and Shen Jian, who was a researcher of magnetic nanomaterials at Oak Ridge National Laboratories—operated by the U.S. Department of Energy—and a professor at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

  More than 7,000 top-level Chinese and non-Chinese professionals, experts, and entrepreneurs have been recruited to China under the program, according to the Thousand Talents website in November 2017....

  Y. P. Zhang was employed by Virginia Tech since 2005.  His research projects covered areas that had to do with the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Army Research Office, Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the instrument research project at the National Defense University.  Zhang was also a researcher at the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, part of the state-run Chinese Academy of Sciences.  According to the Institute’s website, Zhang was recruited by the Thousand Talents program.

  Another example is the arrest of Tianjin University professor

Hao Zhang when he returned to the United States from China in May 2015....YIn 2008, officials from Tianjin University traveled to San Jose, California to meet with Pang, Hao Zhang and other co-conspirators, according to the Justice Department press release about the case.  Shortly after their meeting, Tianjin University agreed to finance them in setting up a FBAR production base in China.  Both Pang and Zhang stayed at their companies while maintaining close cooperation with Tianjin University.  In 2009, Pang and Zhang quit their jobs in the United States and accepted offers of full professorship at Tianjin University.

  The Justice Department stated that Pang, Zhang, and their co-conspirators stole formulas, source code, technical specifications, design kits, and other documents marked as classified or proprietary from their American employers.  Then they shared the stolen trade secrets with Tianjin University, allowing it to build a “state-of-the-art FBAR fabrication facility.”  Later, Pang, Zhang, and others opened a joint venture with the university, called ROFS Microsystems, which would mass-produce FBARs for commercial and military clients.  https://www.theepochtimes.com/on-the-chinese-communist-partys-tactics-for-stealing-western-military-technologies-part-2-of-2_2462754.html

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4-28-16   Arrested nearly a year ago at the Los Angeles International Airport after federal agents boarded his plane from China as it remained on the tarmac,  Zhang is accused of stealing technology with commercial and military applications in conspiracy with five other Chinese citizens and the Chinese government.

The 32-count indictment accused Zhang and the others of stealing source code, presentations, design layouts and other confidential and proprietary documents from Avago and Skyworks Solutions Inc., a Massachusetts company with offices in Santa Clara.  Both Avago and Skyworks are semiconductor companies.  The six men are accused of economic espionage, trade secret theft and conspiracy.  Zhang faces 31 counts, fines of hundreds of thousands of dollars and extensive prison confinement. (Avago is now known as Broadcom Ltd.)

Zhang spent nearly eight weeks in the Santa Clara County main jail and remains under house arrest confined 20 hours a day to a Mountain View apartment.  He was a professor at Tianjin University in China.

Tianjin is “providing necessary humanitarian and legal assistance” to him, according to a translation of a statement from the university published May 22 in The New York Times.  In the same statement, the university defended Zhang’s integrity and its own.  Zhang and his family were required to produce cash and assets equal to $500,000 to secure his release from jail.

Zhang earned his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California in 2006.  He traveled to the United States with his wife, who stayed with him for months, but who returned to China late last year when her visa expired.  Chinese and Chinese-Americans make up the largest Asian population in Santa Clara County with more than 160,000 people....

Zhang never worked for Avago, according to the federal indictment.  Rather, co-defendant Wei Pang, also a Tianjin University professor, worked for Avago in Fort Collins, Colo., until the end of June 2009, the indictment says.  Pang is not in U.S. custody.  Zhang allegedly worked for Skyworks in Massachusetts until May 2009, when he became a full professor at Tianjin University.    http://www.siliconvalleyoneworld.com/2016/04/28/judge-allows-chinese-professor-zhang-to-subpoena-records-from-tech-company/
                   Professor Zhang Hao case still going to trial presently.  -r

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3-4-16    Bin “Ben” Wen, and sister-in-law, Peng “Jessica” Zhang, apparently have done well for themselves, too, operating six engineering and investment firms since 2005.  A few years ago, they moved into a red-brick house on an idyllic acre of land in Great Falls, Virginia – a property the county assessor’s office values at more than $1.7 million.

Now, prosecutors say the trio cheated the federal government out of more than $8 million during the course of a decade.  Using six companies, fake names, fabricated letters and Haifang Wen’s ties to WSU, they won about 30 research grants from federal agencies, and then spent a large chunk of that money on themselves, according to records filed last week in federal court in Rochester, New York. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/mar/04/wsu-professor-accused-of-fraud-collected-about-30-/