Ashley Tellis, Mumbai-born US thinktanker under Justice Department lens for China links

TOI analogous from Washington:Washington DC think-tank assemblage was rocked connected Tuesday aft the US Justice Department accused Ashley Tellis, salient US expert of Indian-origin, of illegally possessing classified documents and gathering with Chinese officials.

In tribunal filings, the Justice Department said a national tribunal had issued a hunt warrant for Tellis’s location successful Vienna, extracurricular Washington DC, and a raid by the FBI had located thousands of pages of classified documents successful the house. The improvement shocked the city’s think=tank assemblage fixed the respect Tellis commanded for his enactment successful the US-India-China domain arsenic a scholar, astir precocious astatine the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Tellis had besides served arsenic a elder advisor to Robert Blackwill erstwhile helium was the US ambassador to India and arsenic a peculiar adjunct and elder manager to President George W. Bush successful the National Security Council.The Justice Department besides identified him arsenic a contractor with the Office of Net Assessment astatine the Department of Defense, present Department of War.“I archetypal met Ashley Tellis successful 2002 and helium has been unfailingly polite and thoughtful successful couss interactions since that time, adjacent erstwhile we person disagreed connected substantive matters.

I privation him fairness and compassion arsenic the ineligible process unfolds,” Christopher Clary, a non-resident chap astatine the Stimson Center, said connected X. Mumbai-born Tellis, 64, is simply a postgraduate of St Xavier's College, Mumbai and aboriginal earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His has been a acquainted look connected the US-India-China talking heads circuit for years with scholarly enactment that was intimately work successful Washington DC, New Delhi, and Beijing.