{
  "id": 798559,
  "title": "Professor’s alleged role in China programmes leads to ban from US funding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/professors-alleged-role-in-china-programmes-leads-to-ban-from-us",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-13T18:24:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3363957/professors-alleged-role-china-programmes-leads-ban-us-funding"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A professor managed US funding of computer science research for more than two years while failing to disclose that he was simultaneously involved in Chinese government programmes, according to previously unreported documents. The professor, Tao Li, was a programme officer at the National Science Foundation from 2015 to 2017, a job that included overseeing the awarding of grants for research in…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}