House Republicans argue in a new congressional report that hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding over the last decade has contributed to China’s military technological advancements.
Collaborations between U.S. and Chinese academics have led to research publications related to advanced research on topics like hypersonics, directed energy, nuclear and high energy physics, and artificial intelligence and autonomy.
That information, Republicans argue, could be weaponized against the U.S. in the event of war with China. Some of the collaborative research they identified related to military applications like high-performance explosives, tracking of targets and drone operation networks.
The House Select Committee on China Competition, together with the Education and Workforce Committee, found some 9,000 joint research publications that were funded either through the Department of Defense (DOD) or the Intelligence Community (IC) published by co-authors with ties to China’s “defense and security apparatus,” including entities that are on a Commerce …