U.S. university tech research opens back door to China; ‘sophisticated system’ circumvents blacklist

The Washington Times ^ | September 23, 2024 | Guy Taylor

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China is exploiting U.S. government-funded research and partnerships between American and Chinese universities — including some with explicit links to the Chinese military — to gain “back-door access” to insights on advanced technology breakthroughs, according to a new congressional report reviewed by The Washington Times.

The report was produced by Republicans on the House Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. It focuses specifically on the transfer of technology research with sensitive defense applications.

“Hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. federal research funding over the last decade” have helped the Chinese Communist Party  “achieve advancements in dual-use, critical, and emerging technologies like hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, fourth generation nuclear weapons technology and semiconductor technology,” states a summary of the report.

The full report was set to be released later Monday. According to the summary, the document uncovers a “sophisticated system” through which China is transferring critical U.S. technologies and expertise to entities on a Commerce Department blacklist that are “linked to China’s defense and security apparatus.”

The document does not say any American universities or researchers have broken laws but asserts that a “lack of legal guardrails around federally funded research” has played directly into China’s strategic goal of outpacing the U.S. and its allies in the race to dominate emerging technology.

Investigators focused specifically on research publications that have disclosed funding from the Pentagon and the U.S. intelligence community. They also included collaboration between U.S. researchers and researchers affiliated with Chinese institutions and universities.

“The purpose that research funding is to generate advancements that will eventually become applied warfighting and intelligence capabilities to protect America against adversarial nations,” the summary of the report states. “Yet the research that the [Department of Defense]...”

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