Posted on 11/28/2019 4:00:06 AM PST by gattaca
Billions of dollars in scientific research funded by American taxpayers has been stolen by China right under our noses and the U.S. government has no plan to stop the ongoing theft of the highly valued intellectual property. In the meantime the publicly-funded work is helping the Communist nation meet its goal of becoming a world leader in science and technology, according to a scathing report published by the U.S. Senate. “This report exposes how American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years,” the document states. “During that time, China openly recruited U.S.-based researchers, scientists, and experts in the public and private sector to provide China with knowledge and intellectual capital in exchange for monetary gain and other benefits.”
While the Chinese Communists run their illicit operation on our own soil, the federal government’s grant-making and law enforcement agencies sit by and let it happen. This includes the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the vast law enforcement agency charged with protecting and defending the U.S. against terrorist attacks, foreign intelligence threats and espionage, cyber-based attack and high-technology crimes. None of the government agencies impacted by the costly crimes have bothered to develop a coordinated response to mitigate the ongoing threat, Senate investigators found. “These failures continue to undermine the integrity of the American research enterprise and endanger our national security,” the report says.
China uses hundreds of government-funded talent recruitment plans to incentivize individuals engaged in research and development in the U.S. to transmit information in exchange for salaries, research funding, lab space and other perks. The Communists then use the American research for their own economic and military gain, Senate investigators say. The report includes specific examples provided by federal agencies that discovered Chinese talent recruitment members who downloaded sensitive electronic research files before returning to China, submitted false information when applying for grant funds and willfully failed to disclose receiving money from the Chinese government on U.S. grant applications. One Chinese talent recruitment member removed 30,000 electronic files before heading back home. Another filed a patent based on U.S. government-funded research and hired other Chinese recruitment plan members to work on American national security projects. “One Chinese talent recruitment plan member stole proprietary defense information related to U.S. military jet engines,” the report states. “Others have contractually agreed to give Chinese institutions intellectual property rights that overlapped with research conducted at U.S. institutions.”
The U.S. government spends more than $150 billion annually on scientific research by funding work at agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories. The NSF, for instance, funds about 27% of all basic research at U.S. colleges and universities where theft of intellectual property by the Chinese is pervasive. The NIH invests north of $31 billion annually on medical research through tens of thousands of competitive grants awarded to hundreds of thousands of candidates. As the largest federal sponsor of basic research in the physical sciences, the DOE awards a whopping $6.6 billion in grants and contracts each year to tens of thousands of researchers at hundreds of institutions. Each of these agencies has been deeply impacted by Chinese infiltrators stealing valuable research, according to the extensive Senate probe. This has been going on for decades.
In fact, more than 20 years ago Judicial Watch helped expose a Chinese Communist scientist (Wen Ho Lee), who stole nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, among the world’s largest science institutions and the nation’s key nuclear weapons research facility. The Bill Clinton Justice Department refused to prosecute Lee because then Attorney General Janet Reno claimed the accusations against him were racist. Judicial Watch represented the whistleblower, Notra Trulock, responsible for launching an investigation into Lee’s actions. Trulock was the DOE’s intelligence operations chief and Clinton administration officials defamed him by accusing him of being a racist to cover up Lee’s repeated and embarrassing security violations.
Sheeeyit. That’s a drop in the bucket compared to what”climate scientists” steal from the American taxpayers every year.
The he'll you say! The FBI?
The Clinton Crime Family strikes again. Grifters. Democrats. Criminals.
Americans in our gov are either ignorant, uncaring or they’re colluding.
With our knowledge today, I say colluding. They deserve expulsion from America.
I don’t know why the US doesn’t do the same to China? We could send our young intellectuals there to infiltrate their mid evil lesbian sexual dynamic awareness research programs and steal all of that valuable work.
Stupid auto-correct!
You cannot find a university in this country today that isn’t riddled with Chinese nationals in the faculty in the STEM fields of study. Not only do we give these moles access to research, we pay them to take it. It’s yet another example of the imminent collapse of the good ol’ US of A.
Round em up ship em out.
Thought this was about the House and Senate.
“Trump’s fault” unless he stops all these ridiculous H1B visas the RATs have passed out like candy.
Every dollar spent to validate the global “climate change” hoax is money being stolen by communists.
Communists Working in U.S. Steal Billions in Taxpayer-Funded Scientific Research.
True but here they are called democrats
Hillary winks
I worked as a librarian in one of the country’s major research universities. Affirmative Action policies resulted in our hiring of a Chinese from the PRC as our systems librarian. He was a computer expert, who, before long, had hacked into the university’s mainframe. We shared an office; he told me before he left each evening to leave the computer on so he could do his “work.” He was connecting from his apartment. I don’t know what “work” he was doing; it certainly wasn’t library work that I knew of. He had no difficulty leaving the U.S. over the Christmas holidays to return to China. He was able to leave China with his wife and child.
I read about Communist government policies—members of the Communist Party have these freedoms; well-connected Chinese loyal to the Party can come and go but others can’t. Chinese here are expected to work for the Communist government and most are spies. So, what was he doing? I’ve thought since that I should have stayed after work, turned on the computer monitor, and watched what he was doing. I also saw him online one day with something called the Confucius Society. He hurriedly closed it down when I entered the office.
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