A Senate report urges the FBI to crack down on China’s poaching of U.S. research.
WASHINGTON — A bipartisan Senate investigation has found deficiencies in the FBI’s response to recruitment efforts of U.S.-based scientists and researchers by the Chinese government, and is pushing the agency to do more to work with universities and federal research agencies that hand out billions of dollars in grants.
“The FBI has yet to develop an effective, nationwide strategy to warn universities, government laboratories, and the broader public of the risks of foreign talent recruitment plans,” the report states. The plan subsequently more than tripled its goal, netting “more than 7,000 ‘high-end professionals,’ including several Nobel laureates.”
Another unnamed researcher was an investigator on an NIH grant from the National Cancer Institute, and signed a contract with a Chinese institution through the TTP that required them to work “at least 9 months” in China from 2014 to 2018, and then mandated that this individual resign their U.S. position in 2019 and work full-time in China.
That only increases the need for the FBI and State Department to work more closely with research agencies and universities to make them aware that these grants or awards from China are “not just Chinese versions of Fulbright or Rhodes scholarships” but in fact “very different,” the investigator said.
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