And China has been remarkably successful in stealing intellectual property and sensitive state information under the guise of "education". Ranking officers of foreign military governments does not exonerate his actions especially when he was caught hiding and destroying data.
He is a ranking officer in the Chinese military accused of destroying a hard drive after being interviewed by agents. Suspicious considering the CCP is actively seeding U.S. universities with clandestine military scientists via the Thousand Talents plan [1].
Remember Stanford physics professor Shoucheng Zhang?
"The close timing of Zhang’s death with the USTR report’s release — as well as the same-day arrest of the CFO of Huawei, a Chinese telecommunications company now under fire for sanctions fraud — has fueled doubt within Chinese media that the scientist’s death occurred of his own accord."