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Looks like it is back to business as usual for China. Remember when Hunter flew over there with Daddy and got those huge sums of money. I guess it is pay back time. Or blackmail time.

And remember how General Flynn was treated by the DOJ and the courts. Too bad he was a U S Citizen instead of a foreign communist.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...-report_3916163.html

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its charges against five visiting Chinese scientists who were accused of lying about the extent of their ties to the Chinese military.

The scientists included biomedical and cancer researchers in California and a doctoral candidate studying artificial intelligence in Indiana, whose various charges, including visa fraud, were dropped by prosecutors, according to brief court filings late Thursday and Friday, reported the Wall Street Journal.

One of the scientists, Tang Juan, a biology researcher based at the University of California–Davis, was scheduled to appear before a jury for the start of her trial on Monday. She headed toward a flight back to China after her Chinese passport was returned, reported The Sacramento Bee.

The outlet reported that Assistant U.S. Attorney Heiko Coppola gave no reason for seeking the dismissal, and acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert declined to comment.

The Epoch Times has reached out to the DOJ for comment.

Tang was arrested in July 2020 for having allegedly lied about her Chinese military service in order to gain entry into the United States. Prior to her arrest, she sought refuge in the Chinese consulate in San Francisco. Three other Chinese nationals were also arrested at the time on similar charges.

Tang, who came to the United States in December 2019, last month had a separate count charging her with lying to the FBI dismissed, after the judge found that the FBI agents prior to their interview hadn’t properly advised her of her Miranda rights, including that she had the right to remain silent and refuse to answer questions.

Separately, Song Chen, a Chinese researcher and visiting scholar at Stanford University, had her FBI interrogations dropped in recent weeks by a judge for the same reason. Late on Thursday, the government appealed to the Ninth Circuit court against the ruling in Chen’s case, a court filing showed, according to Reuters.

For Tang, the remaining count of visa fraud was dismissed and the trial was vacated on Friday, per a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, where prosecutors gave no reasons for their decision, Reuters reported.

The move came after Tang’s defense attorneys, Malcolm Segal and Tom Johnson, called on July 19 for the case to be dismissed, based on recently disclosed evidence of a report by FBI analysts that questioned if the visa application question on “military service” was clear enough for Chinese medical scientists at military universities and hospitals, the news agency reported.

The attorneys said on Friday said in a statement to The Sacramento Bee that they were “glad that the government decided to dismiss,” adding, “We provided ample reason to do so. It was teetering anyway.”

The dropped charges against the five Chinese nationals is a setback for the China Initiative, which the DOJ started three years ago under the Trump administration to counter national security threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party.

In a statement commenting on the DOJ move, Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) accused the Biden administration of not being serious about “challenging China in any meaningful way.”


Tang Juan, a researcher at the University of California–Davis, was arrested on July 23, 2020, for hiding her ties to the Chinese military in her visa application. (Court document)

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And yet, we're holding Americans in prison for walking through the Capital building. Unbelievable.


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Back to stupid and conflicted policy. This is why the swamp hate MAGA and America first policy. Sadly, there are too few America first people in govt power.



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Just heard from Lee Smith in his interview by Tucker Carlson on FoxNation:

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