Hundreds of NASA-funded researchers violated the law that bans working with China
ASU, apparently one of many universities filled
with people now hostile to America
According to a just completed House investigation, hundreds of academics and universities have routinely violated the law by taking NASA funding for their research but then working hand-in-glove with Chinese individuals or institutions.
A House investigation has identified hundreds of scientific publications in which NASA-funded U.S. researchers appear to have conducted joint work with Chinese institutions, potential violations of a federal law that has barred such collaboration for more than a decade.
The report, released on Wednesday by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, also found that, in several instances, some of that research involved collaboration between National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scientists and institutions that are part of “China’s defense research and industrial base.”
You can read the full report here [pdf]. Among its numerous findings for example it notes that Arizona State University and Stanford University both filed false certifications, stating that they were not working with Chinese individuals, agencies, or institutes, even though their later published papers blandly listed such individuals, agencies, and institutes. The report lists numerous other similar examples.
During Trump’s first administration the Justice Department made a concerted effort to enforce this law. Under Biden that effort ended (with many prosecutions abandoned), to be replaced with a zealous effort to ignore it, an effort enthusiastically supported by the partisan leftist academic community. This new report essential outlines the violations that began during the Biden era.
China is aggressively working on all levels to steal technology from the west. Sadly, it is more and more aided by America’s university system and the administrators, professors, and researchers based there, a large majority of whom are now outright hostile to our country and wish to sabotage it.
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It’s a bit late to close the barn door.
Ours is an open society. After Loral, it was all she wrote. The GOP, the DNC and all Free Traders are equally guilty.
The only individuals with clean hands are Perot supporters
Jeff Wright,
You vastly exaggerate Loral’s help, and completely ignore the role of the government in trying to open up China and adding it to the WTO.
Ignore? Where on Earth did you get that idea?
Going to China was worse than Nixon lying to protect his friends. The Clintons had their friends lie to protect themselves.
You didn’t read what I said about Perot being the only one with clean hands, did you?
Jeff Wright,
As is often the case, what you write is so vague that it could mean anything. “The GOP, the DNC and all Free Traders are equally guilty,” is not particularly enlightening, other than in telling people you resent them. You frequently appear to expect people to read your mind and know exactly what you mean.
Left-wing academics have been running wild for decades – mostly on the public dime – and it’s well past time they were landed on with hob-nailed boots. The Trump administration and a few state governors have begun to shovel out the Augean stables of academe, but it’s a huge job and needs more resources at all levels.
Part of the problem is that the Wolf Amendment, in its statutory text, targets NASA, rather than individual scientists — save to the extent that those scientists are employed by, or working with, NASA in some tangible way.
Something more is needed by the administration here. It could start with a NASA finding that all work with the individuals in question is proscribed going forward. I would try to do the same with Stanford and ASU in their entirety until they undertake measures to redress these actions, i.e., firing all of the individuals involved in any way, and putting in place new enforcement mechanisms subject to NASA review and approval, if they want to ever work with NASA again.
Beyond that, the law needs some toughening up, and it needs to cast a wider net. That will require action by Congress in some way, which is unfortunate, even if the GOP keeps it next year by some miracle.
Scarface (1983)
“Dealing With Unreliable Government Funded Researchers”
https://youtu.be/M699tkc6wx4?t=30
Minor edit in first line: “hundreds of academics”
Andi. Thanks. Fixed.