FBI, Prosecutors Outline Chinese Communist Intimidation, Surveillance, Influence

The Communist regime is so brittle and insecure that it views even the mildest challenge — a poster from a music student, a Boston rally for rule of law in Hong Kong — as a mortal threat.

AP/Charles Krupa, file
A Harvard University professor, Charles Lieber, leaves federal court at Boston following his arrest on allegations he hid his involvement in a program designed to recruit people with knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China. AP/Charles Krupa, file

BOSTON — The Department of Justice, in a series of moves, is unearthing Chinese Communist attempts to infiltrate American universities and to intimidate U.S.-based advocates of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law in Hong Kong and China.

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