US media concern: The US Department of Justice dropped the charges against the Chinese professor

According to the Associated Press Washington reported on January 20, the US Department of Justice on Thursday local time to withdraw the charges against an MIT professor, the so-called "China Action Plan" once again frustrated.

In filings in a federal court in Boston, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly disclosed its decision in Mr. Chen's case, saying it could no longer meet its burden of proof.

Federal prosecutor Rachel Rawlings of Massachusetts said the move was "in the interests of justice" and was the result of new information received by the administration about the allegations.

The result was expected, as prosecutors in Boston had earlier suggested. This dealt a blow to the so-called "China Action Plan," which was launched in 2018. Critics have long argued that the program inappropriately targets researchers based on race, leading to a cooling of academic collaboration.

U.S. Justice Department spokesman Wayne Hornbacker said the Justice Department is currently reconsidering the prospects for the program, and the process is expected to be completed in the coming weeks.

Chen Gang issued a statement thanking supporters and saying he would have more to say soon. "While I am relieved that my suffering is over, I realize that this grossly misguided 'China Action Plan' is still unwarranted fear in academia and that other scientists are still facing accusations," he said. ”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response to an inquiry on the 18th that There is an old saying in China: "If you want to add to your crime, you will not be able to say anything." The so-called "China Action Plan" of the US Department of Justice first sets up case-handling targets and then investigates and handles cases, which will only lead to unjust, false and wrongly decided cases. The vast majority of the program's compilation of "typical cases" over the past two years have reportedly not involved intellectual property and commercial theft. This practice of disregarding judicial justice and unjustifiably imposing charges has aroused strong opposition and condemnation from righteous people in the world. Nearly 2,000 scholars from universities across the United States jointly sent a letter to the U.S. attorney general questioning the plan; 192 Yale professors jointly wrote to the U.S. attorney general arguing that the plan was fundamentally flawed; more than 20 Asian-American groups jointly sent a letter to the President of the United States demanding that the program be stopped; and the Chinese-American Federation organized protest demonstrations outside the U.S. Department of Justice to stop the "China Action Plan."

Zhao Lijian pointed out: Facts have proved that the essence of the so-called "China Action Plan" is nothing more than a clumsy tool used by the ANTI-China forces in the United States to abuse the concept of national security and contain and suppress China. The US side should listen to the just voices of all walks of life, correct its erroneous practices as soon as possible, stop using China as an "imaginary enemy," stop fabricating excuses to smear and suppress China, and stop interfering with and undermining normal Sino-US exchanges and cooperation in the fields of science and technology and humanities.

Source: Reference News Network