USTC

United Shipping and Trading Company, or USTC, which is behind Nordic Waste, earlier blamed the landslide on climatic conditions beyond its control.

The government has lashed out at Denmark’s sixth-richest man, Torben Østergaard-Nielsen, who is behind USTC, for not paying.

Pan Jian-Wei, a physicist who works on multiple quantum-computing approaches at USTC, agrees.

Barry Sanders, a Canadian physicist from the University of Calgary, spends two to three months a year as a visiting professor in Pan’s group at USTC, a position he got through China’s Thousand Talents recruitment program.

Strider found the details about Pan’s defense-industry connections in Chinese-language publications posted online by USTC, a defense contractor and state-controlled media.