The trigger was the arrest of a prominent scientist named Harvard University professor

The following is from an article by Rui Sasaki, vice chairman of the Sankei Shimbun editorial board, which was published in the monthly magazine Hanada, entitled 'Xi Jinping's Brain Hunt: The Thousand Man Plan.'
The article is a must-read not only for Japanese citizens but also for people all over the world.
How are newspapers such as Asahi Shimbun and T.V. media such as NHK under the control of China?
Japanese people should be shocked.
But the same is true for media around the world.
Harvard professor arrested
The mysterious-sounding phrase "Thousand Talents Plan" is once again attracting attention in Japan and the United States.　
The trigger was the arrest of a prominent scientist named Harvard University professor who was involved in a university in Wuhan, China.
In January of this year, he was arrested and indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice on charges of violating U.S. law by having a secret relationship with China.
Wuhan is the source of the new coronavirus. What is the connection between this professor and the corona disaster, or not?　
Before I go into the details of this story, I would like to give a brief explanation of what the Thousand Talents Plan is.　
The Thousand Talents Plan is a national project that gathers the world's top-level researchers, including Nobel laureates, on a scale of 1,000 and invites them to China with unbeatable treatment.
In other words, it is a plan to obtain intellectual property centering on the most advanced technologies from the United States and other countries at a quick pace.
Initially, in the 1990s, the Chinese government actively encouraged Chinese researchers who were studying abroad to return to their home countries as a national policy to hurry up the acquisition of advanced technology.　
They were called "sea turtles" because they drifted across the ocean to return to their home countries.
The name "sea turtles" comes from the similarity between the Chinese words "Haigu" and "Haigu-i," meaning "return from abroad."　
After 2008, when the Beijing Olympics were held, Xi began to invite foreign researchers other than Chinese, mainly from the United States, as part of the " Thousand Talents Plan."
It is said that there are now nearly 200 invitation programs, such as the "Thousand Talents Plan," which focuses on these foreign researchers, and is also called the "Ten Thousand Talents Plan.　
However, this plan, which is supported by the Chinese Communist Party, began to stumble.
It was around 2018. There was a series of arrests of Chinese researchers by the U.S. investigative authorities and dismissals by U.S. universities and research institutions.　
It led to the disappearance of the four words "Thousand Talents Plan" from public documents in China, as they were no longer mentioned prominently.
It is believed that the Xi Jinping administration, impatient with U.S. pressure, ordered the removal of the "Thousand Talents Plan" from the party and government circulars.　
But the plan itself has only gone underground, and because there is no end to the number of researchers participating in the project, it is safe to assume that it has accelerated.
In the United States, the proof is that the U.S. Congress and the Justice Department are wary as a dangerous plan that threatens security.
This article continues.