WASHINGTON—Communist China has gained “back-door access” to U.S. technologies through partnerships between academic research institutions over the past decade, with millions of dollars in U.S. funding indirectly going to advance Chinese military technology, according to a new congressional report.
The report, a collaboration between Republicans on the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Education and Workforce Committee, found that U.S.-funded researchers have collaborated with their Chinese counterparts in fields such as hypersonics, directed energy, nuclear and high energy physics, and artificial intelligence and autonomy.
“These are not innocuous technologies with civilian-only applications. Rather, they are cutting edge technologies, militarily useful in the western Pacific, that the PLA [People’s Liberation Army] can and will use against U.S. servicemembers in the event of a conflict,” the report states….