From The New York Times: U.S. Drops Its Case Against M.I.T. Scientist Accused of Hiding China Links
Gang Chen, a professor of mechanical engineering, was arrested a year ago, accused of concealing his affiliations with Chinese government institutions.
For the first, I think the Joint Research Centre is a nice model - an international sui-generis organisation (Euratom) pools expertise in research in a crucial topic (nuclear) and in no time (20 years) European Commission ends up employs scientists to work together on projects of interest to the whole EU. Could work for the global as well ;-)