Posted on 09/05/2025 5:08:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Over a recent two-year period, the Pentagon funded hundreds of projects done in collaboration with universities in China and institutes linked to that nation’s defense industry, including many blacklisted by the U.S. government for working with the Chinese military, a congressional investigation has found.
The report, released Friday by House Republicans on the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, argues the projects have allowed China to exploit U.S. research partnerships for military gains while the two countries are locked in a tech and arms rivalry.
“American taxpayer dollars should be used to defend the nation — not strengthen its foremost strategic competitor,” Republicans wrote in the report.
“Failing to safeguard American research from hostile foreign exploitation will continue to erode U.S. technological dominance and place our national defense capabilities at risk,” it said.
The Pentagon and didn’t immediately respond to an Associated Press request for comment.
The congressional report said some officials at the Defense Department argued research should remain open as long as it is “neither controlled nor classified.”
The report makes several recommendations to scale back U.S. research collaboration with China. It also backs new legislation proposed by the committee’s chairman, Rep. John Moolenaar, R-Michigan. The bill would prohibit any Defense Department funding from going to projects done in collaboration with researchers affiliated with Chinese entities that the U.S. government identifies as safety risks.
The Chinese Embassy on Friday called the report “groundless.” “We oppose it,” the embassy said.
Beijing has in the past said science and technological cooperation between the two countries is mutually beneficial and helps them cope with global challenges.
Republicans say the joint research could have military applications
The 80-page report builds on the committee’s findings last year...
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Like Gain-of-function COVID?
Anything technological.
Hell yes! research at universities has aided China’s military. The labs all have high IQ hi performing students who are Chinese nationals working in them. All of them have relatives in China. All of those relatives are hostages and the students and any Chinese nationals and their American born children and many of their grandchildren are effectively spies for China. They are required to send any scrap of information they encounter in labs and even in classes to China, Being Chinese they have much closer attachment to family and clan than 90% of other origin Americans. At the highest levels of government and the pentagon surely that is understood but the fear of discriminating is disabling to common sense. Nist come to America for educational opportunity or to have better lives and information transmission to China is the price of it.
Meow.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center just kicking a lot of a$$, as usual.
OMG! What a waste of taxpayer monies.
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