Wife professor of data privacy, Xiaofeng Wang, who was dismissed from his employment at the University of Indiana, Bloomington (IU) the same day on which the couple’s houses were searched by the Federal Investigation Bureau last month, said on Monday that she believes that her family was unfairly targeted by the US government and is a victim academic. “
“Our family is determined to fight, not only for themselves, but for a wider research community, which would have an impact if such allegations did not become unquestioned,” said Nianla Ma.
For the first time, he has spent publicly since the search of the FBI at the end of March. She appeared at the online seminar led by the Asian Scholar Forum (AASF), the Non -Profit group created at the beginning of 2021 to support the laws and recognition of Asian American scholars. Ma work as a library analyst at the University Reported.
“I just can’t understand how the university, to which we dedicated two decades of our lives, they could treat us like that, not to say why or passing the proper trial, especially for my husband,” she said. “I lost weight and I had difficulty sleeping. I feel trapped in a constant state of worries and sadness.”
The Wang case aroused concerns among scientists that the closed program of the Department of Justice called China Initiative is revived as part of the new Trump administration. The campaign, which began during the first term of President Trump about the given purpose of combating economic espionage, was accused by critics of unfair directing on researchers born in China and other Asian immigrants and Asian-American academic communities. Later, he abandoned the program under the Biden administration after losing or withdrawing many related matters.
One of the most famous of them was the case of Professor Mit Gang Chen, who was accused in 2021 as part of China Initiative for the alleged not revealing connections with several Chinese institutions in the conclusions of the subsidy. Chen also spoke at the Monday online seminar. The allegations against him were abandoned the following year after disclosure of disclosures that the federal government is not required.
“The story of the nanny is painful. Pictures of the FBI raid on a nanny and the house of Professor Xiaofeng Wang brings chills to our spikes,” said Chen. “He recalls the fear that my family and many others passed as part of the initiative in China. Reading about you a report, one cannot stop asking if China’s initiative has actually returned,” he said directly to Ma.
Brian Sun, a member of the AASF Advisory Council, said at the online seminar that it seems that there is no evidence that the Xiaofeng case requires any illegal transfer of technology or anything that suggests the fears that led to the establishment of the Chinese initiative. “
Representative American Grace Meng from Fresh York, who gave a speech at this event, said that she was worried about the efforts of the current US presidential administration in order to restore the Chinese initiative, which “did nothing to significantly solve concerns about national security and instead created a deep cold for research and scientific innovations, as well as ruining life and maintaining those who were.”