A senior House Republican is urging the Pentagon to expand restrictions on U.S.-funded research involving dozens of Chinese universities and laboratories, including some of China’s most prominent schools, over concerns that American research could help advance the Chinese military.
Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Select Committee on China, asked Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to expand the Pentagon’s research-security blacklist to cover additional Chinese institutions and government-sponsored researchers.
Moolenaar’s Oct. 1 letter, publicly released on Oct. 14, names 58 universities, 62 laboratories, and 14 Chinese Academy of Sciences institutes. It also recommends restrictions involving 22 Chinese talent recruitment programs and students and researchers funded by the China Scholarship Council….