“There are questions, however, regarding the extent to which the formal dropping of the ‘China Initiative’ name has been accompanied by substantive changes in the [US] government’s practices that address the chilling effects experienced by scientists of Chinese descent,” the report published in renowned international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) last week said.
At least 150 scientists had been investigated so far, with criminal charges laid against two dozen of them under the initiative, and “many more investigated in secret”, it said.
The study was carried out by five Chinese-origin researchers in the United States – a Harvard biostatistics scientist, a nuclear engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technlogy (MIT), and three “contemporary China” experts from Princeton.
More than 1,300 “tenured or tenure-track” academics at US universities were surveyed for the poll, carried out between December 2021 and March last year.
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