CHILLING VIDEO: Hundreds of Millions of US Research Dollars are Helping China’s Military

October 10, 2024

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From the Washington Free Beacon: The American government is pumping hundreds of millions of federal research dollars into research projects that are spurring Chinese advancement in cutting-edge military technologies, including “hypersonic weapons, artificial intelligence, fourth generation nuclear weapons technology, and semiconductor technology,” a new congressional report has found.

“Due to a lack of legal guardrails around federally funded research, hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. federal research funding over the last decade have contributed to the PRC’s strategic goals by helping the PRC achieve advancements in dual use, critical, and emerging technologies,” the House Select Committee on China wrote in a report published late last month.

The findings, compiled as part of a year-and-half-long investigation, show how major American universities are using federal funds to partner with Chinese institutions on a range of research projects that feed the communist nation’s military. The bulk of this work is fueled by taxpayer grants from the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence community, providing “back-door access to the very foreign adversary nation whose aggression these capabilities are necessary to protect against,” according to the committee.

While American funding for research projects that involve Chinese universities has long raised concerns in Congress, the extent to which the federal government funds such projects has remained opaque. The China committee’s investigation marks one of the most comprehensive reviews to date on how taxpayer funding from America’s defense establishment ultimately builds up Beijing, giving its military a critical edge as diplomatic relations between the United States and communist China deteriorate.

The committee discovered more than 8,800 Pentagon-funded research projects that were conducted alongside Chinese academics affiliated with the country’s state-controlled institutions. Another 185 projects were backed by funding from the U.S. intelligence community.

Below is another critical excerpt from the Free Beacon report:

Top American colleges have raked in upwards of $426 million from China since 2011, money that is often obfuscated and not properly reported to the federal government.

Stanford University, for instance, took in $27 million from Chinese entities between 2021 and 2023. The University of Delaware, which houses the Biden Institute, has taken more than $6 million from the country since 2017.

The committee uncovered evidence that Berkeley and Georgia Tech violated the Higher Education Act by failing to report foreign funding from China, which typically results in harsh penalties.

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