Book Review: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century
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March 13, 2021
Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the 21st Century | Josh Rogin | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | March 2021.
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ccording to reports, President Joe Biden may convene the first-ever quadrilateral U.S. summit with leaders from Australia, India, and Japan as part of the administration’s push to counter China. The summit would revive the quadrilateral relationship known in policy circles as “the Quad” that emerged after the 2007 Indonesia tsunami. It had lain dormant out of fears from Delhi and Canberra about antagonizing Beijing. However, with India and China fighting across the border at Ladakh, and Australia’s growing concern about China’s expansionist foreign policy, both countries are reconsidering the value of such a partnership with Washington and Tokyo.
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Australian security agencies will give universities an expanded list of emerging technologies that should be protected from foreign interference as concern grows about local academics giving China access to their critical research.
The list will go beyond the military or “dual-use” technologies that Australian universities have traditionally been told to protect from foreign governments.
ASIO boss Mike Burgess says his agency is only concerned with covert, clandestine and deceptive means to obtain Australian research.
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Universities will also be told to protect research that would likely promote the economic, social and political goals of foreign states at the expense of Australia’s national interest.
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Academics urge tighter rules on China links
CHINESE GRANTS: National security agencies should charge professors who accept illegal funding from Beijing, as they could be a threat to security, academics said
By Wu Po-hsuan and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Academics called for stiffer penalties and criminal charges against professors who take unauthorized grants from China after the Ministry of Education on Thursday fined National Taiwan University (NTU) chemical engineering professor Lee Duu-jong (李篤中).
Fan Shih-ping (范世平), a National Taiwan Normal University professor of East Asia Studies, on Thursday said that Taiwan-China academic exchanges often occur in a legal gray zone, as Chinese research institutes are more often than not state affiliates with Chinese Communist Party representatives on their staff.
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The Justice Department charged a former University of Florida professor with fraudulently obtaining $1.75 million in grant money from the National Institutes of Health while hiding his connections to the Chinese government and his efforts to profit in China.
Lin Yang, who had resided in Tampa but went back to China in 2019, was charged with six counts of wire fraud and four counts of making false statements to the U.S. government in an indictment returned by a grand jury in December but unsealed Wednesday.
The Justice Department said Yang obtained a $1.75 million grant from NIH to develop an imaging informatics tool for muscles known as “MuscleMiner.” But at the same time, he set up a business in China known as “Deep Informatics” and promoted it in China as being based on research funded by the U.S. government. Yang was also accepted into China’s Thousand Talents Program through China’s Northwestern Polytechnical University. The Australian Strateg