Posted on 11/22/2019 4:27:13 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Foreign-born researchers working at U.S. agencies secretly joined Chinas payroll, sending sensitive U.S.-funded research to the country while U.S. government agencies took almost no defensive measures against a major recruitment operation, a Senate investigation found.
Researchers linked to the Chinese government formed a Chinese cell within the Department of Energy, attained access to American genomic data, and recruited other U.S. researchers to join, the bipartisan report stated.
Chinas Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) aims to get foreign governments to finance the communist powers military and economy by buying off researchers who are doing work abroad. The experts apply to the program, and if approved by the Communist Party, they join Chinas payroll and sign secret side agreements that the experts will share their research with that country, according to the investigation.
Some of the information captured by TTP had significant military value. For example, in 2016, Dr. Long Yu, a Chinese citizen and U.S. permanent resident working for a U.S. defense contractor, applied for Chinese talent plans and was arrested for attempting to give hundreds of gigabytes to China, including design info on military jet engines, according to the investigation.
China wins twice. First, the American taxpayer funds Chinas research and development. Second, China uses that research to improve its economic and military status, Sen. Rob Portman, an Ohio Republican who chairs the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, said in a statement.
Sen. Tom Carper, a Delaware Democrat whose staff co-wrote the report, said there are serious consequences that come from giving a foreign government so much control over the vital research we rely on to drive our countrys economic competitiveness and bolster our national defense.
As China announced its plans and reportedly recruited 7,000 researchers in countries other than China, virtually every U.S. government agency made missteps, with some taking almost...
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Gee, what was the first clue?
I sure hope that Rick Perry cleaned out the Dept of Energy while he was there.
A few executions may slow it down a bit.
A purge is in order.
Those DOE and other executives who allowed Chicom agents to work at their agencies have given aid and comfort to the enemy. The Constitution has a word for that.
Friend of Barbara Boxer?
Shame we're so short of people with critical skills that we have a special program that imports foreign born researchers. /sarc
Alll Chinese, whether citizen or not, must be regarded as spies for China if they have immediate family inside China and probably if they have extended family there, too.
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