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Unless he already fled. It seems kind of weird for the feds searching his houses to lag behind his disappearance by a couple of weeks if they had already grabbed him. They tend to be shock and awe, hit everything simultaneously to stop any deadman's switches or accomplices from cleaning things up types.
My guess is he long since fled the country. Given the agencies involved, University quietly scrubbing him with no comment, the general silence of a seeming FISA warrant, I bet they think he's a spy.
They think he's a spy because of something ridiculous like he was discussing his work in his field with people in his field who were in China who are friends with someone whose brother is in the PLA and therefore he was in their minds directly handing super secret American knowledge to the enemy. It's the same absurd shit they've pulled on a number of occasions. You can share this knowledge with Turkish people, with French people, with Brazilian colleagues, with people in Thailand, etc. It's only when you do it with China and on occasion Russia (though they have this weird idea that the Russians are hyper-capable so there's no point in doing that while the Chinese are racistly assumed to have stolen all they know hence ridiculous shit like the Wolf amendment thinking that will keep them behind the US in rocketry) that you get slapped with this kind of consorting with the enemy, endangering national security, YOU'RE A SPY type stuff.
I don't think the Chinese have insight and warned this guy, most likely the feds just did something clumsy, asked around too loudly and someone mentioned it and he and his wife got the fuck out hopefully and are in China right now applying for positions at Chinese universities.