The Biden-era Department of Defense (DOD) funded hundreds of research projects involving Chinese universities and institutes tied to China’s military industry, including ones already on U.S. government blacklists, a congressional investigation has found.
More than 300 Pentagon grants were connected to these studies, and more than 700 projects were conducted with institutions affiliated with China’s defense research and industrial base, the report states.
Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, wrote: “There is no justification for U.S. taxpayer-funded research to be conducted with entities documented to have facilitated human rights abuses or support China’s mass surveillance apparatus.”
