![]() ![]() Communist China is already within our borders.” However, around 90% of the Chinese graduate students who study in the US stay here, Xi said, and the vast majority do open research that contributes to US science. “Too many of them come here to steal our intellectual property and to take this back to their country. For example, in a video clip Xi showed, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo commented on Chinese students and employees. ![]() In his talk, Xi highlighted several misconceptions voiced by members of the US government. Since then, Xi has worked to increase the visibility of cases like his, which led the Sakharov Prize committee to honor him last year. His FBI interrogators “knew nothing about how science is done, and they saw routine academic activities as criminal.” Four months later, the charges were dropped, and Xi was released, after independent experts convinced federal prosecutors that the schematics Xi had shared with his Chinese colleagues did not describe any sensitive technology. But the indictment “was totally false,” Xi told his APS audience. In May 2015, he was arrested by the FBI on charges of sending sensitive American technology to China. Xi has personal experience with this matter. He said that this targeting by national security agencies could have disastrous consequences for US research, and he urged scientists to defend their Chinese colleagues from injustice. Xi, of Temple University, Philadelphia, spoke at the 2021 APS March Meeting. “Innocent Chinese-American scientists are being unfairly targeted,” according to physicist Xiaoxing Xi, one of two 2020 winners of the APS Andrei Sakharov Prize. ![]() But this crackdown could have unwanted repercussions. The US government has recently taken a hard line toward economic espionage, arresting several researchers for allegedly sharing technology secrets or for hiding affiliations with the Chinese government. Xiaoxing Xi, of Temple University, is a 2020 recipient of the APS Andrei Sakharov Prize. ![]()
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