[SeekAndFind]

OK, pardon me for asking a stupid question.

Since researchers and scientists share the results of their work with other scientists from all over the world, why is working with technologists at Wuhan University a crime? Is there a law specifically aimed against sharing knowledge with Chinese scientists?

[mfish13]

They do not share if the work is proprietary.

[Boogieman]

They share some of it with other scientists, but not everything. If the government is funding your research project, for example, there may be strings attached.

[BTerclinger]

” Is there a law specifically aimed against sharing knowledge with Chinese scientists WHO WORK FOR THE CHINESE COMMUNIST GOVT?”

There should be.

Whats the difference between the Chicomms and the Nazis?
Nazis were responsible for 20 million dead.

Chicomms? between 45 and 70 million.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I think it’s the fact that the didn’t disclose the money he was getting from a foreign government that is getting him jammed up, and it’s not just a tax problem (but there is that, too).

[Missouri gal]

Working with Chinese scientists was not specifically the problem. He lied about WHAT he was researching and the research was probably funded by taxpayer funded grant. (For which the applicant swears on oath they were truthful.) Regardless of who funded the research, we don't just let people do any kind of research together with hostile nations, especially when the results might be used against us. Research is not necessarily publicly shared. US law forbids sharing anything that might be used as a weapon against us. This is what the Huawei controversy is about.