#IntellectualProperty #Theft
Chinese University Professor Participates in Beijing's #ThousandTalentsProgram by Developing Scientific Expertise for China in the #US

In the United States, Song-Guo Zheng, a 58 year-old rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China, was sentenced to 37 months in prison for making false statements to federal authorities as part of an immunology research fraud scheme. He admitted his plan to use approximately $4.1 million in grants from the U.S. National Institute of Health (#NIH) to develop China’s expertise in the areas of rheumatology and immunology.

Zheng was arrested Friday, May 22, 2020, in Anchorage, Alaska, when he was fleeing to China. He was carrying three large bags, one small suitcase and a briefcase containing two laptops, three cell phones, several USB drives, several silver bars, expired Chinese passports for his family, deeds for property in China and other items.

Zheng was a professor of internal medicine who led a team conducting autoimmune research at The Ohio State University and Pennsylvania State University; however, since 2013, Zheng had been participating in a #ChineseTalentPlan, a program established by the Chinese government to recruit individuals with knowledge or access to foreign technology intellectual property.

Assistant Attorney General John C. Demers for the Justice Department said, “American research funding is provided by the American taxpayer for the benefit of American society — not as an illicit gift to the Chinese government."

Source: The United States Department of Justice #May14

www.justice.gov/opa/pr/university-researcher-sentenced-prison-lying-grant-applications-develop-scientific-expertise

#SongGuoZheng #OhioU #ChineseProfessor #FalseStatement

#FakeNews #MadeinChina
#ChinaDaily Caught Promoting China with Stolen Photo of #Switzerland, After Criticizing Western Media's Credibility

China Daily, China's state-owned newspaper, released a satirical cartoon via its Twitter account on May 10, 2021, suggesting that "western media lacks credibility".

The account subsequently shared a promotional video on sightseeing in China, which showed a natural landscape with the hashtag “#ChineGlamour”. However, German and French TV station #ARTE（Association Relative à la Télévision Européenne) discovered that the landscape image was taken by a travel blogger, and was in fact recorded in #Brienz, Switzerland. The image is then flipped horizontally, and the blogger's watermark cropped out.

The blogger criticised China Daily’s #plagiarism, and mocked them for promoting China with a stolen picture of Switzerland. China Daily had since deleted the video without apologies.

#IntellectualProperty #Originality #Credibility #Theft

Source: Twitter #May19
https://twitter.com/chinadaily/status/1391573916276039682?s=21
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10225478008796046&set=a.3424228683399&type=3

In an interview with a former CIA officer at the #China Forum 2021, we had a discussion on China’s #IntellectualProperty #theft, and how unfair it is to compete with China knowing that they commit intellectual property theft of technology worth billions of dollars.

🔥Watch here👉https://youtu.be/AeyQChspd1c