Report Sheds Light on China’s Use of Military-Linked Researchers - WSJ

Report Sheds Light on China’s Use of Military-Linked Researchers - WSJ

Hundreds of papers link US university research and Chinese military

Over 250 papers published between 2013 and 2019 resulted from collaborations between US researchers and scientists affiliated with Chinese institutions for military research, according to a report published by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. The collaborations, which covered topics from naval engineering to materials science, involved Chinese institutions linked to the People’s Liberation Army. The report’s authors say that such collaborations “compromised US national and economic security, and undermined the integrity of US research”. The Chinese institutions involved in the collaborations do not have names indicating their military affiliations — and, in some cases, researchers tried to hide the military ties, the report says.

Wall Street Journal | 5 min readReference: Hoover Institution report