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Thousands of US-Based Scientists Sell Research to China, Report Says

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(1) Thousands of US-Based Scientists Sell Research to China, Report Says
(2) US Senate Report, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs

(1) Thousands of US-Based Scientists Sell Research to China, Report Says

https://www.theepochtimes.com/thousands-of-us-based-scientists-sell-research-to-china-report-says_3150130.html

Thousands of US-Based Scientists Sell Research to China, Report Says

BY MARK TAPSCOTT

November 18, 2019 Updated: November 18, 2019

China has paid more than 7,000 U.S. scientists and other experts over
the past decade through its Thousand Talents Plan (TTP) to hand over
their research, according to a Senate subcommittee report made public on
Nov. 18.

The TTP is only one of about 200 such Chinese "talent recruitment"
programs. While being paid by China, these scientists have also received
U.S. government funding. U.S. taxpayers have thus spent hundreds of
billions to fund research and development that has ended up in China,
according to the report.

Congressional aides who briefed reporters on the report gave examples of
what TTP-linked scientists have done. In one instance, a researcher at
the U.S. Department of Energy downloaded more than 30,000 files without
authorization and took them to China.

In another example, at the National Institutes of Health, a scientist
redirected research from a lab in the United States to have it done
instead at a Chinese institution.

Sometimes, the scientists have transferred intellectual property to
China, while in other instances, they have set up shadow labs in China
to simultaneously replicate their U.S.-based work.

Beijing has been even more successful with its "talent recruitment" than
it had hoped, according to the aides. While its original goal was to
recruit 2,000 U.S. researchers through TTP, it drew more than 7,000 by 2017.

The TTP is closely managed by the Chinese Communist Party Central
Committee’s Organization Department, which controls the assignments of
more than 90 million Party officials at all levels of government.

The report is an important step toward understanding how U.S. tax-funded
research has contributed to China’s global rise, the congressional aides
said. The report was created by the Committee on Homeland Security and
Government Affairs’ Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

It focused on how China’s TTP compromised researchers in several U.S.
agencies, and it found those agencies did little to prevent the problem.

Much about the TTP was known because Chinese officials posted selected
details about the program on official websites. But when U.S. officials
began paying serious attention to the program in 2018, Chinese
government websites deleted online references to the TTP, including a
list of names of the participating scientists.

FBI Was Slow to Act, Report States

The report was especially critical of the FBI, which received
information concerning members of the TTP and other talent recruitment
plans in 2016. The FBI took nearly two years to coordinate dissemination
of that information to federal grant-making agencies, the aides said.

As a result, the report stated, Beijing had "the opportunity to recruit
U.S.-based researchers and scientists … including 70 Nobel Prize
laureates and academicians."

Additional details about the slow FBI response were redacted from the
report, but the document added that the bureau "continues to lack a
coordinated national outreach program to combat the threat posed by
[China’s] talent recruitment plans."

The subcommittee document was also critical of the Energy, Commerce, and
State departments. It said that Energy officials have identified
hundreds of TTP members working in positions within the department.

State Department officials don’t "track China’s talent recruitment
programs and rarely deny (less than 5 percent) visa applications of
Chinese nationals with potential ties to intellectual property theft,"
the report stated.

Commerce Department officials have approved significant numbers of
Chinese nationals to work on sensitive U.S. technologies. The
subcommittee reviewed 2,000 individuals and found 20 were members of
talent recruitment programs, more than 150 had ties to Chinese
universities with ties to China’s military, and more than 60 were
associated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

FBI and other federal officials will be questioned on Nov. 19 during an
open hearing of the subcommittee.

(2) US Senate Report, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental
Affairs

https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-11-18%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20China's%20Talent%20Recruitment%20Plans.pdf

United States Senate
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Rob Portman, Chairman
Tom Carper, Ranking Member
Threats to the U.S. Research Enterprise:
China’s Talent Recruitment Plans
STAFF REPORT
PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

III. BACKGROUND
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A. China’s Goal to be the Science and Technology Leader by 2050
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1. From Brain Drain to Brain Gain
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2. China’s Systematic Targeting of Critical Technologies
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3. China’s Military-Civilian Fusion Strategy
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4. China’s Strategic Plan for Talent Recruitment
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