A scientist advising America’s drinking-water system had been recruited by the Chinese Communist Party.Chinese records say he was serving the U.S. EPA and Beijing’s water program “simultaneously.”His name is Yuefeng Xie.
Natalie Winters' thread exposes Yuefeng Xie, a Penn State professor appointed to the EPA's drinking water committee in 2016, as a Thousand Talents recruit who simultaneously held a Tsinghua University professorship and advised China's housing ministry on water issues.
Chinese records and university notices confirm Xie's "国家千人计划专家" status, detailing his dual US-China affiliations and expertise in water treatment, with one document linking him to a Tsinghua-led project funded jointly with NSF using restricted Houston water network data (43 reservoirs, 5,607 pipes).
The case highlights ongoing US concerns with China's Thousand Talents program, which recruits overseas scientists for national priorities, as Xie contributed to modeling US infrastructure while serving Beijing's water programs. GROK
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