Investigation Prompts Schools to Report $6.5 Billion in Undisclosed Foreign Gifts and Contracts

2020-08-17

Foreign Governments and U.S. Universities: Peddling Influence and Stealing Secrets

Source: Judicial Watch

In some instances, professors are pawns in long running games of technological theft. That’s the case of part-time UCLA Professor Yi-Chi Shih, convicted in Los Angeles in 2019 of trying to steal sensitive microchip technology and ship it to China, where it could be used for fighter jets and missiles.

2020-07-24

Judicial Watch Sues U.S. Department of Education for Records Of Investigations of Foreign Money in Colleges and Universities

Source: Judicial Watch

It was reported on June 15, 2020, that “More than 70 U.S. universities that received funding from the Chinese government did not disclose those donations to the Department of Education, prompting concerns from lawmakers and watchdogs about Beijing and the Communist Party’s growing influence on American college campuses.”

2020-07-31

Farrell: China Is Exploiting America’s Universities To Steal Vital Research

Source: The Daily Caller

Communist China has been engaging in a systematic program to co-opt American higher education institutions and steal U.S. intellectual property. And many schools have been less than forthcoming about the vast sums they have received from Beijing.