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How’s the name of that American-Chinese rocket scientist that the US expelled to China and kick started the Chinese space program?
This is going to happen again. Congrats fascists piece of shit.Edit: Qian Xuesen
Well, this guy may never see the light of day again given he got disappeared instead of arrested like the other researchers
Hope he and his wife are OK, and they can continue contributing to society from outside the US. I was not talking specifically of him, but of all the other researchers working there, seeing how the government could kidnapped them and their universities didn’t bat an eye to protect them.
Unless he already fled. It seems kind of weird for the feds searching his houses to lag behind his disappearance by a couple of weeks if they had already grabbed him. They tend to be shock and awe, hit everything simultaneously to stop any deadman’s switches or accomplices from cleaning things up types.
My guess is he long since fled the country. Given the agencies involved, University quietly scrubbing him with no comment, the general silence of a seeming FISA warrant, I bet they think he’s a spy.
They think he’s a spy because of something ridiculous like he was discussing his work in his field with people in his field who were in China who are friends with someone whose brother is in the PLA and therefore he was in their minds directly handing super secret American knowledge to the enemy. It’s the same absurd shit they’ve pulled on a number of occasions. You can share this knowledge with Turkish people, with French people, with Brazilian colleagues, with people in Thailand, etc. It’s only when you do it with China and on occasion Russia (though they have this weird idea that the Russians are hyper-capable so there’s no point in doing that while the Chinese are racistly assumed to have stolen all they know hence ridiculous shit like the Wolf amendment thinking that will keep them behind the US in rocketry) that you get slapped with this kind of consorting with the enemy, endangering national security, YOU’RE A SPY type stuff.
I don’t think the Chinese have insight and warned this guy, most likely the feds just did something clumsy, asked around too loudly and someone mentioned it and he and his wife got the fuck out hopefully and are in China right now applying for positions at Chinese universities.
did he get disappeared though, or did he see the writing on the wall and abruptly leave?
the description in one of the stories by neighbors who witnessed a raid of unmarked cars on his home gave me the impression they were looking for him i.e. knocking on the door, asking someone to “come out”.
The actual term is “disappeared”.
Remember that Cryptography was on the US Munitions List until roughly the year 2000.
Legal challenges by Peter Junger and other civil libertarians and privacy advocates, the widespread availability of encryption software outside the U.S., and the perception by many companies that adverse publicity about weak encryption was limiting their sales and the growth of e-commerce, led to a series of relaxations in US export controls, culminating in 1996 in President Bill Clinton signing the Executive Order 13026 transferring the commercial encryption from the Munition List to the Commerce Control List. Furthermore, the order stated that, “the software shall not be considered or treated as ‘technology’” in the sense of Export Administration Regulations. The Commodity Jurisdiction process was replaced with a Commodity Classification process, and a provision was added to allow export of 56-bit encryption if the exporter promised to add “key recovery” backdoors by the end of 1998. In 1999, the EAR was changed to allow 56-bit encryption (based on RC2, RC4, RC5, DES or CAST) and 1024-bit RSA to be exported without any backdoors, and new SSL cipher suites were introduced to support this (RSA_EXPORT1024 with 56-bit RC4 or DES). In 2000, the Department of Commerce implemented rules that greatly simplified the export of commercial and open source software containing cryptography, including allowing the key length restrictions to be removed after going through the Commodity Classification process (to classify the software as “retail”) and adding an exception for publicly available encryption source code.
Current Status
As of 2009, non-military cryptography exports from the U.S. are controlled by the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security.[6] Some restrictions still exist, even for mass market products; particularly with regards to export to “rogue states” and terrorist organizations. Militarized encryption equipment, TEMPEST-approved electronics, custom cryptographic software, and even cryptographic consulting services still require an export license.[6]: 6–7 Furthermore, encryption registration with the BIS is required for the export of “mass market encryption commodities, software and components with encryption exceeding 64 bits” (75 FR 36494). For elliptic curves algorithms and asymmetric algorithms, the requirements for key length are 128 bit and 768 bits, respectively.[7] In addition, other items require a one-time review by, or notification to, BIS prior to export to most countries.[6] For instance, the BIS must be notified before open-source cryptographic software is made publicly available on the Internet, though no review is required.[8] Export regulations have been relaxed from pre-1996 standards, but are still complex.[6] Other countries, notably those participating in the Wassenaar Arrangement,[9] have similar restrictions.[10] On March 29, 2021, the Implementation of Wassenaar Arrangement 2019 Plenary Decisions[11] was published in the Federal Register. This rule included changes to license exception ENC Section 740.17 of the EAR[12][13]So they could be trying to nab them for exporting cryptography to China under some vague enemy nation, “rouge state” designation or whatever. They can cook the books on that however they want.
Exactly my thoughts. They talked shop with people in China about their trade and now they’re trying to portray them as spies. Hopefully they got wind of this and left the country.
Xiaofeng Wang
probably confused him with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Xiaofeng
Many such cases
