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Solemn statement on IEEE's restrictions on normal academic exchanges

Recently, the IEEE has unreasonably restricted the participation of Huawei employees and individuals funded by Huawei in the review. We are deeply shocked.

Researchers' participation in reviewing journals is a fundamental right to perform their peer review duties, regardless of nationality, race, or institution. The imposition of restrictions on scientists engaged in normal academic exchanges is a blasphemy of the values of academic independence, scientific spirit, and scientific community, and a rough trample on normal academic exchange order and scientific and technological development. We strongly believe that we should be highly vigilant about the dangerous approach of politicizing academic exchanges and express our deep concern over the shadow cast on international academic exchanges.

Science knows no borders. As a non-political, non-profit organization with international influence, IEEE's behavior of tying academic exchanges to politics is completely contrary to its core value of "trustworthy and unbiased". This "review door" incident is a serious discrimination against individual scientists and institutions, a serious retrogression in the development of academic exchanges, and has become a crisis in the international academic and scientific circles.

As an academic organization with a long-term good cooperation with the IEEE, we are firmly opposed to the countercurrent of politicization of academic exchanges, resolutely opposed to attempts to challenge the principles of free and equal academic exchanges, and resolutely opposed to acts that undermine a fair and just academic environment.

We strongly call on scientists, science and technology organizations, and academic communities from all over the world to pay attention to this major crisis in the academic community, jointly defend the international norms of academic exchanges, ensure that scientific research is not politicized, and take effective actions together to prevent the incident from sliding to the detriment of the healthy development of science and technology And the abyss of the progress of human civilization.

The trouble should end it. We urge the IEEE to soberly recognize the harm caused by the incident to the global scientific community, take substantive measures to eliminate the adverse effects of the incident, return academic exchanges to the normal track, and win the trust of all members and the global science and technology community with practical actions.

Hereby declare.

Chinese Institute of Electronics, Chinese Institute of Communications, Chinese Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Chinese Institute of Instrumentation, Chinese Optical Society, Chinese Automotive Engineering Society, Chinese Biomedical Engineering Society.

June 2, 2019. ^[2]