“secretly aiding and abetting cancer research in China”
That is worse than fat shaming and gay stomping combined. I heard they used the N-word in public too while drinking stuff with plastic straws. These guys are true miscreants
Stealing intellectual property is not a victimless crime.
Medical Faculty don’t see international borders any more. That applies to ANY country.
When it comes to finding a cure for diseases, If someone in another country has a piece of the puzzle, they want to work with them.
Relationships often begin at academic conferences, gel during invited visits for symposiums or lectureships and culminate in the melding of research into scientific papers.
Since 2010 the NIH has offered about US$5 million a year in grants for US-China collaborations, with 20 per cent going to cancer research, and a counterpart in China has pitched in US$3 million a year. The joint projects have produced a number of high-impact papers on cancer, according to an internal NIH review.
It is unfortunate that a few industrial spies spoil the whole bunch of others whose motives are not sinister.