{"id":38938,"date":"2025-04-16T15:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/alarm-on-campus-after-fbi-raid-on-chinese-cybersecurity-professors-home\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:49:46","slug":"alarm-on-campus-after-fbi-raid-on-chinese-cybersecurity-professors-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/alarm-on-campus-after-fbi-raid-on-chinese-cybersecurity-professors-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm on campus after FBI raid on Chinese cybersecurity professor\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaofeng Wang was fired by Indiana University on same day as raid \u2013 and Asian students fear political motivation<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/03\/31\/fbi-searches-xiaofeng-wang-homes-indiana-university-cyrptography-computer.html\">FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents<\/a> descended recently on two homes owned by Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese national and cybersecurity professor at Indiana University, many in the idyllic college town of Bloomington were shocked.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Wang had been questioned by his employers about allegedly receiving undisclosed funding from China on a project that also received US federal research grants. On the same day of the home raids, Wang was fired from his longstanding post at Indiana University over email \u2013 a move that goes against the university\u2019s own policy.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/16\/chinese-professor-bloomington-indiana\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaofeng Wang was fired by Indiana University on same day as raid \u2013 and Asian students fear political motivation When FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents descended recently on two homes owned by Xiaofeng Wang, a Chinese national and cybersecurity professor at Indiana University, many in the idyllic college town of Bloomington were &#8230; <a title=\"Alarm on campus after FBI raid on Chinese cybersecurity professor\u2019s home\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/alarm-on-campus-after-fbi-raid-on-chinese-cybersecurity-professors-home\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alarm on campus after FBI raid on Chinese cybersecurity professor\u2019s home\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}