Posted on 12/11/2021 3:17:06 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
China continues to rely on its connections with dozens of U.S. universities to collect what it deems is sensitive information in a collaborative effort to build up its military modernization, a report found this week.
A report released Thursday by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank found that China is using its existing relationships with U.S. universities to collect information and technological know-how "to achieve Chinese military dominance."
"China’s civilian university system play a major role in China’s military-industrial complex, including its nuclear and cyber-espionage programs," the report found. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has "ordered" civilian universities and all students to comply with its military-civil fusion strategy to integrate military, civilian and commercial investments to "advance China’s interest."
The report found that there are 34 U.S. universities that continue to work with Confucius Institutes (CI), which are CCP sponsored programs intended to promote educational and cultural ties worldwide.
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The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank found that China is using its existing relationships with U.S. universities to collect information and technological know-how “to achieve Chinese military dominance.”
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has “ordered” civilian universities and all students to comply with its military-civil fusion strategy to integrate military, civilian and commercial investments to “advance China’s interest.”
The Foundation for Defense of Democracies found that 34 US universities continue to work with the so-called “Confucius Institutes” (CI)....... CCP sponsored sub rosa programs they say are intended to promote educational and cultural ties worldwide.
Call Congress:
US House of Representatives 202-225-3121
US Senate 202-224-3121.
And our corrupt, woke, and no longer respectable universities will bend over and say the liberal “do me, do me now” reply to all enemies.
My granddaughter, who worked in a biomedical lab, said they constantly spoke Chinese.
China is using smart tactics. No wonder it is now the wealthiest country on earth.
In the WSJ ...
Commentary (U.S.)
Opinion
Is MIT’s Research Helping the Chinese Military? My concerns about how Beijing might be using our findings were dismissed as racist and political.
By Michelle Bethel
890 words
10 December 2021
11:23
The Wall Street Journal Online
WSJO
English
Copyright 2021 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
I was thrilled when I joined the board of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research seven years ago. But last week I resigned. I’m no longer confident the institute can ethically push the boundaries of science for the good of humanity while working with institutions beholden to the regime in China.
My stepfather, the late Patrick McGovern, founded the institute in 2000 to foster knowledge of the human brain and cure diseases. He was a global pioneer, who expanded the institute’s partnerships with institutions in China during a more optimistic time in that country.
I have real affection for China and its people. I moved to Shanghai with my husband in 2006. Over the next seven years, I gave birth to three children there and learned the culture as well as the language.
China was different then. The government had, at least to a degree, gotten out of the way of its citizens—enough that the country was thriving on the work ethic of its people and their desire to succeed. We saw striking changes: skyscrapers went up; new highways were built, people catapulted themselves out of poverty into the modern world.
But times have changed. The Communist Party has reasserted itself in every aspect of China’s society—economic, social, cultural and, yes, scientific. Yet MIT and the McGovern Institute seem to have failed to scrutinize these developments. I believe that MIT doesn’t have a firm grasp on events in China or on the risks of partnerships with Chinese institutions in cutting-edge areas of science that are subject to misappropriation or abuse for military modernization or repression.
Reuters recently published an article about a Chinese professor at a Danish university who collaborated with Chinese researchers to investigate monkeys’ brains at high altitudes. It concerned me because the professor followed the rules of the university as well as the laws of Denmark, yet his research might have aided the People’s Liberation Army. By conducting research with institutions in China, the McGovern Institute unwittingly could be aiding the country’s repressive security apparatus or its military, whose officers have published articles declaring biology a new domain of warfare.
The Chinese Communist Party, in pursuing what it calls “military-civil fusion,” has passed laws stating that all institutions, including those in partnerships with Western universities, are obligated to serve the modernization of the Chinese military. This requirement and the Party’s opacity make it hard to ascertain if the PLA is using our research.
I was concerned about the potential reputational damage to the institution that bears my stepfather’s name. When I first aired these concerns a few years ago, other board members took offense. One said that any serious inquiry into the ambitions of the Chinese Communist Party would be “racist.” A key member of the institute asked me to “stick to science” and not to mention China again.
On reading the Reuters article last month I raised my concerns again. Board members again dismissed the issues I cited, saying scientific progress is paramount. One characterized my motives as “political”—a head-scratcher, given that I don’t wear my centrist political views on my sleeve.
This week the U.S. announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics, citing credible reports that the Communist Party is conducting genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. These are serious accusations that MIT should be concerned about. Examining whether our research may be aiding the PLA is neither political nor racist.
This problem isn’t unique to the McGovern Institute or MIT, which are filled with talented scholars who want to advance science for the good of humanity. The problem is not necessarily with any specific institution in China. The problem is the nature of an autocratic system that is only as ethical and trustworthy as its rulers—who avail themselves by decree of all scientific research and data generated in China.
Nobody on the McGovern board can be certain whether the institute’s collaboration with the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, or with Chinese universities, benefits the Chinese military. These institutions don’t fall under U.S. law or MIT rules. They fall under China’s laws, including its 2017 National Intelligence Law, which requires Chinese institutions to share information with the government on demand, and the 13th Five-Year Plan for Military and Civil Fusion, which focuses on “cross-pollination of military and civilian technology” in areas including “neuroscience and brain-inspired research.”
Given my concerns, the logical next step would be a thoughtful discussion. As an academic institution, we should promote diversity of opinion and sincere debate. Yet when colleagues at the institute abruptly shut down this idea, I saw little merit in continuing to express my concerns internally—or in remaining on the board.
In parting, I ask the board, and others like it across the country, to take a stand against working with repressive governments. We should promote ethics before the pursuit of science.
Mrs. Bethel is CEO of Pazow! and an alumna of MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Please take me off your China list. Thank you, I know enough.
RE: My granddaughter, who worked in a biomedical lab, said they constantly spoke Chinese.
She should have picked up a few Chinese words such as translated to “Quiet, not around the roundeyes.”
Unlike a good FRiend elsewhere on this thread, please put me on your China news list as I don’t know enough.
Thanks
Most Americans do not realize that CMU has been ranked #1 or tied for #1 in Computer Science grad schools for decades.
Billions of dollars of USA taxpayer funded research at CMU has just waltzed out the front door and straight to China.
Only because it has 1.4 billion people.
Chinese GDP per capita is only $19,000 (Purchase Parity Dollars), which ranks it below 99 other countries.
What in the world does that mean?
Purchase Parity Dollars?
What the... ?
I would also be interested in being on your list, for China.
谢谢你.
cảm ơn :)
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Done
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China's currency is the yuan, which is also known as the Renminbi.
Naturally, all of China's financial numbers are calculated in yuan, which is meaningless to people who live outside China or do not trade the yuan professionally.
When a certain amount of yuan is converted into Purchase Parity Dollars, any American can understand exactly how much that will buy in the USA.
Typical currency trading involves government manipulation, inflation, deflation, interest rates, national debt, trade surplus and deficit, and much more.
We pay billions of dollars for 'intelligence' and billions more for a military that can't win a war... Why aren't we spending a few bucks to fund a group that can actually DO something? Or at least expose groups that facilitate this crap.
During World War II we did NOT allow German Nazis to 'buy' our Universities...and collect our military research.
So you are simply converting yuan to dollars?
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