...Tao was falsely accused in 2019 of economic espionage, making him the first professor arrested and jailed under the contentious Trump-era China Initiative. The since-shuttered national security initiative was widely criticized for racial profiling and targeting Asian American scholars. It was amid his yearslong case that Tao, who was acquitted last year, alleges in the complaint that the school collaborated with the Justice Department to “persecute” him...