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China hides identities of top scientific recruits amidst growing US scrutiny

Chinese researchers fear that affiliation with the high-status Thousand Talents scheme could make them targets of FBI investigations.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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China’s flagship science talent recruitment programme, the Thousand Talents Plan, has gone underground amidst intensifying scrutiny by United States government agencies for China's suspected role in the theft of US technologies and intellectual property.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-07167-6

This article was first published at natureindex.com.

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  • Correction 26 October 2018: A previous version of this story erroneously stated that the FBI Houston Division held a briefing at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The briefing was held elsewhere.

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