They are doing a brilliant job of stealing ours.
They have a couple thousand graduate students enrolled in America's elite STEM universities, and a couple thousand more MS and PHD graduates working as H-1Bs, and dozens of “joint research” projects between USA and Chinese universities.
And it is not just the USA.
France supervised the the construction of the infamous Wuhan Lab, the same Lab that Dr. Fauci gave $7.5 million of American money to perform corona virus “gain of function” research.
Complete insanity - and undisguised greed by America's elite universities.
RE: Why does China need its own Research & Development?
In Communist Controlled China, R&D means REVERSE and DUPLICATE.