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Feb 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Since absolutely NO ONE is getting the importance of this statement let me explain. The BIS under the Commerce Department a department not exactly known for being China hawks have added to the Mechanical Engineering Department at Southern University of Science and Technology 1/n
Does this name ring any bells? Anyone? Anyone?
This is THE EXACT department MIT Professor Chen Gang was working with that was the source of the charges against him which were recently dropped. So let's recap the situation then 3/n
He says it was all a racist witch hunt and with no explanation the charges are dropped including the tax and foreign asset charges which should be unrelated to the fundamental charge. A couple weeks later THE department he and MIT were working with and pushing on their 4/n
Website are put on the BIS unverified list. If you think all this is a coincidence, I have a beach front home in Xinjiang to sell you. Now I don't know what the real story is but I know no journo wants to work some sources. The best part though? 5/n
I know that non-journos have filed FOIA's to get his funding applications and that early indications are that they will be provided. If only journos knew how to actually dig for information rather than just rewrite press releases. I don't know what it is, but I know there is more

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