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U.S. Drops Charges Against MIT Professor Over China Ties
- Gang Chen reversal comes as Justice Department reviews policy
- U.S. is rethinking economic espionage cases related to China
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U.S. prosecutors dropped an indictment against an MIT professor charged a year ago with receiving federal grant money but failing to disclose his ties to China.
The reversal in the case of Gang Chen, a nanotechnology expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, comes as the Justice Department is reviewing its policy of investigating and prosecuting cases of economic espionage intended to benefit China.