China dubs ex-Harvard University professor Lieber's arrest as 'suppression of scientists'

In the aftermath of an ex-Harvard professor getting convicted of hiding its ties with a Chinese university, Bejing has defended its international scientific exchange programmes. Labelling Charles Lieber's arrest as "suppression of scientists," the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that Washington should not "stigmatize" such programs and "instead do something conducive to China-U.S. scientific and people-to-people exchanges and cooperation.” Beijing argued that US’s increased crackdown have jeopardised the exchanges between the two countries. r"We have noted that US justice department' repression of scientific and damage to normal China-US scientific and technological exchange in the name of combating economic espionage has already…