[KorematsuFredt]

A friend of friend, a doctor of Chinese origin was caught under Trump administration for stealing "critical IP" and giving it to Chinese scientists. I do not know all the details but later it was revealed that the Doctor who was treating child cancer patients in USA shared the best practices and treatment plans that seems to have worked better than others to his doctor contacts in China.

[samhw]

That sounds very similar to this, which someone posted elsewhere in the thread: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/wrongly-prosecuted-chine... It seems like a pattern of prosecution.

[GhettoComputers]

What classified it as "critical IP"? Was there some oath or some papers he wasn't supposed to use any of these practices?

[demadog]

In courts they evaluate cases by each situation, so this would be treated differently than other theft, in theory.

[KorematsuFredt]

Read this : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-06-13/the-u-s-i...

> The NIH and the FBI are targeting ethnic Chinese scientists, including U.S. citizens, searching for a cancer cure. Here’s the first account of what happened to Xifeng Wu.

> Her resignation, and the departures in recent months of three other top Chinese American scientists from Houston-based MD Anderson, stem from a Trump administration drive to counter Chinese influence at U.S. research institutions. The aim is to stanch China’s well-documented and costly theft of U.S. innovation and know-how. The collateral effect, however, is to stymie basic science, the foundational research that underlies new medical treatments. Everything is commodified in the economic cold war with China, including the struggle to find a cure for cancer.

> Ways of working that have long been encouraged by the NIH and many research institutions, particularly MD Anderson, are now quasi-criminalized, with FBI agents reading private emails, stopping Chinese scientists at airports, and visiting people’s homes to ask about their loyalty.

Like in above case where the person is being entangled into an IRS tax evasion case, these people are being ethnically targeted, questions, harassed, their constitutional rights being trampled upon.