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Zhang Shoucheng Was Being Touted for a Nobel Prize in Physics; Why Did He Kill Himself?

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Zhang Shoucheng Was Being Touted for a Nobel Prize in Physics; Why Did He Kill Himself?
A gold Nobel Prize medal. Zhang Shoucheng, a Stanford physicist, who was being touted for a Nobel Prize in Physics killed himself. AP Photo/Fernando Vergara, FILE
Steven W. Mosher
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On Nov. 20 President Trump’s trade advisor, Robert Lighthizer, issued an exhaustive report on China’s efforts to beg, borrow, and steal U.S. intellectual property.

Eleven days later, on Dec. 1, Stanford University Professor Zhang Shoucheng, who had been collaborating with the Beijing regime’s drive to dominate hi-tech under its “Made in China 2025” plan, killed himself.

Steven W. Mosher
Steven W. Mosher
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Steven W. Mosher is the president of the Population Research Institute and the author of “Bully of Asia: Why China’s Dream is the New Threat to World Order.” A former National Science Foundation fellow, he studied human biology at Stanford University under famed geneticist Luigi Cavalli-Sforza. He holds advanced degrees in Biological Oceanography, East Asian Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. One of America’s leading China watchers, he was selected in 1979 by the National Science Foundation to be the first American social scientist to do field research in China.
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