This article relies heavily on the claims of the FBI. It is important to know that in recent years (beginning with the Trump administration's "China Initiative"

This article relies heavily on the claims of the FBI. It is important to know that in recent years (beginning with the Trump administration's "China Initiative"), the FBI has made a large number of false accusations against ethnically Chinese researchers in the United States. A few of the most egregious examples: * Chen Gang, head of MIT's Department of Mechanical Engineering. The FBI went after him extremely viciously, raiding his home early in the morning with guns drawn, as if he were a terrorist. In the end, it turned out that he had done absolutely nothing wrong, and that the FBI had no case against him. There's a New York Times article about Chen Gang's ordeal here.[0] * Anming Hu, an engineering professor at the University of Tennessee (and a Canadian citizen), who had his life turned upside down for two years by the FBI. The FBI first pressured him to spy against China, and when he refused, the FBI pursued both him and his family, going so far as to spy on his son. It eventually turned out that the FBI had knowingly used false evidence against him, and Anming Hu was acquitted. Still, he was publicly smeared as a spy and fired from his job (the FBI lied to his employer to get him fired - just one of the many awful things they did to him). There's an article in the journal Nature about Anming Hu's ordeal.[1] There are a lot of cases like this. The FBI has consistently shown that it doesn't understand how academic research works (treating normal, open academic exchange as if it were espionage), and has a pattern of maliciously targeting ethnically Chinese academics on the flimsiest of evidence. In Anming Hu's case, an FBI agent decided very early on that Hu must be a spy, and then spent two years trying to prove his completely baseless suspicions. 0. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/gang-chen-mit-china.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/24/science/gang-chen-mit-chi... 1. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00528-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00528-2