Jury finds Chinese U of Kansas professor guilty of fraud

Image:  In one of the tiny fraction of federal China Initiative–related cases to make it to trial, a jury last week found University of Kansas chemical engineering professor Feng “Franklin” Tao guilty on three counts of wire fraud and one count of making false statements. For the China Initiative’s many critics, the Tao verdict did little to nothing to redeem the now-discontinued counterintelligence program. Michael German, a national security fellow at New York University’s...