Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.
It was 6.30am on Jan 14 last year when federal agents came to arrest Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Gang Chen at his home, for failing to disclose his links to China in grant applications.
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