![]() Only about a quarter of people and institutions charged under the China Initiative have been convicted.A significant number of research integrity cases have been dropped or dismissed.The initiative’s focus increasingly has moved away from economic espionage and hacking cases to “research integrity” issues, such as failures to fully disclose foreign affiliations on forms.The DOJ has neither officially defined the China Initiative nor explained what leads it to label a case as part of the initiative.While the threat of Chinese intellectual property theft is real, critics wonder if the China Initiative is the right way to counteract it. The DOJ has not publicly defined the initiative or answered many basic questions about it, making it difficult to understand, let alone assess or exercise oversight of it, according to many civil rights advocates, lawmakers, and scholars. ![]() To date, only about a quarter of defendants charged under the initiative have been convicted, and about half of those defendants with open charges have yet to see the inside of an American courtroom.Īlthough the program has become a top priority of US law enforcement and domestic counterintelligence efforts-and an unusual one, as the first country-specific initiative-many details have remained murky. Instead of focusing on economic espionage and national security, the initiative now appears to be an umbrella term for cases with almost any connection to China, whether they involve state-sponsored hackers, smugglers, or, increasingly, academics accused of failing to disclose all ties to China on grant-related forms. Now, an investigation by MIT Technology Review shows that the China Initiative has strayed far from its initial mission. ![]()
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