Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) announced that he will soon introduce legislation to protect American research and intellectual property, after another researcher was caught concealing his participation in a Chinese state-run job recruitment program.
The program, called the Thousand Talents Plan (TTP), was rolled out by Beijing in 2008 to recruit promising science and tech researchers from foreign countries to work in China—for the ultimate goal of fulfilling its ambition for global tech dominance.
