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Scientific Freedom and the Totalitarian Threat

The case of a Harvard chemist defecting to China indicates a need for tougher laws.
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Scientific Freedom and the Totalitarian Threat
Charles Lieber (C) in front of the Joint WUT-Harvard Joint Nano Key Laboratory, in Wuhan, China, in 2012. U.S. Department of Justice
Anders Corr
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Former Harvard chemist Charles Lieber, a felon convicted of lying about taking money from the regime in China, is reportedly rebuilding his lab there.
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Anders Corr
Anders Corr
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Anders Corr has a bachelor’s/master’s in political science from Yale University (2001) and a doctorate in government from Harvard University (2008). He is a principal at Corr Analytics Inc. and publisher of the Journal of Political Risk, and has conducted extensive research in North America, Europe, and Asia. His latest books are “The Concentration of Power: Institutionalization, Hierarchy, and Hegemony” (2021) and “Great Powers, Grand Strategies: the New Game in the South China Sea” (2018).
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