‘China Initiative 2.0’: US crackdown on Chinese scholars intensifies

‘China Initiative 2.0’: US crackdown on Chinese scholars intensifies Immigration lawyers and activists claim the Trump Administration has ramped up its targeting of Chinese scientists and researchers in US “I think now we are clearly in an era of China Initiative 2.0,” said Robert Fisher, a former Assistant US Attorney and a partner at Nixon Peabody, a Boston-based international law firm. Speaking at an online panel hosted by the Asian-American Scholar Forum on Tuesday, Fisher said he was witnessing a “large uptick” in federal and state investigations involving China-linked researchers, scientists and professors, though he noted that most had not yet resulted in indictments or prosecutions. “I have many, many folks who are under investigation, whether a search warrant was executed on their home or they’ve been stopped at the border,” he added.