scientific norms of transparency, reciprocity, and integrity," the report says. standards of research integrity, place (Thousand Talents) members in compromising legal and ethical positions, and undermine fundamental U.S. "The contracts include provisions that violate U.S. In September, hundreds of scholars, business leaders, politicians, activists and at least two former cabinet secretaries gathered at a Silicon Valley conference designed to highlight what the participants portrayed as a corrosive bias against ethnic Chinese in the United States.Ī bipartisan November report by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations highlighted China's Thousand Talents Plan, under which China recruits overseas scientists and induces them to sign secret contracts that "violate U.S. The headline: "No, I won't start spying on my foreign-born students." "And if we wind up thwarting the ability of people to exchange ideas, we will not make discoveries."Ĭolumbia University President Lee Bollinger was even more blunt in an op-ed in the Washington Post in August. "Our greatest strength is our openness," Thomas Rosenbaum, president of the California Institute of Technology, said in an interview. Mark Kauzlarich / Bloomberg via Getty Images file escalates its crackdown on the telecom giant. He now faces a federal criminal charge, as the U.S.
The Chinese professor has been accused by a Silicon Valley startup in a civil lawsuit of stealing its trade secrets for Huawei Technologies Co. Bo Mao, a professor at Xiamen University in China and a visiting professor of computer science at the University of Texas at Arlington, departs federal court in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Sept. In response to what they say is systematic espionage, the FBI and other agencies have been pushing universities and research institutions to tighten up policies governing outside relationships, travel disclosure and conflicts of interest for graduate researchers and professors.īut the government pressure - backed by the leverage of billions in federal grants to universities - has sparked accusations of racial profiling and pushback by college presidents who say they fear that a massive overreaction risks what makes America's university system special. as the world superpower, and they are breaking the law to get there." "China's communist government's goal, simply put, is to replace the U.S. "No country poses a greater, more severe or long-term threat to our national security and economic prosperity than China," said Boston's top FBI agent, Joseph Bonavolonta.
A Chinese Harvard-affiliated cancer researcher was caught in December with 21 vials of cells stolen from a laboratory at a Boston hospital.
Much of this campus spying is never caught, let alone prosecuted, officials say. "That's where the science and technology originates - and that's why it's the most prime place to steal." "A lot of our ideas, technology, research, innovation is incubated on those university campuses," said Bill Evanina, the top counterintelligence official in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Department of Justice / FBIĪmerica's world class university system has become a soft target in the global espionage war with China, intelligence officials say - and they are pressing universities to do something about it. The same day, a former Boston University student was accused of visa fraud after she allegedly failed to disclose her status as a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army.
In late January, the chairman of Harvard's chemistry department was arrested by FBI agents in his office, charged with lying about a lucrative relationship with a Chinese talent recruitment program. criminal cases alleging Chinese spying in the academic world. Mao, who has pleaded not guilty, is among the latest defendants in a string of U.S. But what makes the case against Mao particularly noteworthy is how he was accused of carrying out the theft: By using his status as a university researcher to obtain the circuit board under the guise of academic testing.
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