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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by DevKoala on Friday June 12, 2020 @08:56PM (#23505647)
> Wang similarly told his supervising UCSF professor that he had duplicated some of the work of that professor at the lab in China. Some of the work of the UCSF lab was funded by grants from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Wang also wiped his personal phone of WeChat messaging content earlier the morning he arrived at LAX.

They are being thorough.

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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by bfieidhbrjr on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:00PM (#23505670)
Everyone has OpSec.

And then he told them everything during an interview. Or maybe it's all lies to hide something else. Who knows.

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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by a012 on Friday June 12, 2020 @09:49PM (#23505985)
He's a "Level 9" PLA officer (apx. Major officer), if he spilled that out easily to CBP, definitely there's something more suspicious than just copy-cat labs design.
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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by rdtsc on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:36PM (#23506554)
The official name for that is I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout

But something doesn't add up to him just confessing that quickly all that information

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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by baybal2 on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:30PM (#23506532)
Level 9 technician is just a civilian employee, not an officer, let alone major.
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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by __s on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:53PM (#23506333)
Finally some effort to address the replication crisis
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Re:Officer of China’s People’s Liberation Army Arrested at LAX by boomboomsubban on Saturday June 13, 2020 @12:19AM (#23506709)
It doesn't say when the professors work was duplicated, it may have been a published experiment he duplicated at his university job. I imagine most US university medical labs have grant funding from those organizations, they don't even suggest Wang was involved with that research.

And wiping your phone before international travel, particular to China, is just smart. That doesn't imply wrongdoing.

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