China News Service, Washington, September 10th. A court document published on the 9th showed that Hu Anming, a Chinese professor who was prosecuted by the US for his involvement in the "espionage case," was found not guilty and all charges against him were unfounded.

　　Hu Anming is a nanotechnology scientist, Canadian Chinese, and once taught at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

In February 2020, he was sued by the FBI for concealing his relationship with a Chinese university when applying for a NASA research project and was charged with wire fraud and misrepresentation.

　　In November 2018, the US Department of Justice launched a so-called "China Action Plan" aimed at combating economic espionage and theft of trade secrets.

The American "Asia Pacific Association for the Advancement of Justice" (APA Justice) pointed out that Hu Anming was the first Asian scientist to be prosecuted for the action plan.

The US government claims to crack down on economic espionage, but it has launched a large-scale investigation against Asian scientists, researchers, and scholars.

　　In his acquittal of Hu Anming on the 9th, Tennessee District Judge Thomas Varlan pointed out that the rules of university management research awards are confusing. At the same time, the prosecutor did not provide any evidence that Hu Anming intended to deceive National Airlines. Space agency.

　　According to local media reports in Knoxville, the trial surrounding the Hu Anming case lasted 6 days.

During the trial, the judge believed that some of the evidence cited by the prosecution, including the communication records between Hu Anming and the University of Tennessee, showed that Hu Anming had not actually concealed his work in China.

　　After the verdict of the case, the "Asian American Association for the Advancement of Justice" (AAJC) issued a statement in support of the verdict and pointed out that "What happened to Hu Anming and his family was not an isolated incident, but the US government targeted Asians. Part of the systematic racial prejudice and discrimination of scientists and researchers".

　　The investigation and prosecution of Chinese scientists by the US government is not an isolated case.

A number of Asian-American federal lawmakers also issued a motion to request US Attorney General Garland to investigate why wrongful prosecutions against Asian individuals have occurred repeatedly.

　　In June of this year, the judge declared the Hu Anming trial invalid.

The US Department of Justice later announced its intention to retry the case on July 30.

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