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Harvard Arrest Ups the U.S. Ante on China as Security Threat

  • FBI agent says ‘communist government’ has superpower goals
  • Prosecutors tie ‘Thousand Talents’ scholars to multiple crimes
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A Harvard University chemist, an ex-Coca-Cola Co. scientist and a University of Kansas researcher.

All three have been swept up in a U.S. crackdown on intellectual property theft sponsored by China and linked to the Thousand Talents Plan, a Chinese government program to recruit overseas researchers.