The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funded research done in collaboration with Chinese researchers and institutes linked to China’s defense research and industrial complex, according to a congressional report published Dec. 17.
Lawmakers with the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence are calling on the federal agency to improve due diligence.
Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, in a press release called the investigation’s findings “deeply alarming” as the practice effectively puts “American taxpayers on the hook for funding the military rise of our nation’s foremost adversary.”…