Biden Can Still Turn His Words Into Deeds on China newsmax.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newsmax.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Hundreds of scientists and academics at Australian universities have been recruited by the Chinese Communist Party as part of Beijing s push to become the dominant global power by 2050, a new report claims.
A new submission to a parliamentary inquiry warned the authoritarian state has offered lucrative pay packets to at least 325 people at Australian universities as part of China s Thousand Talents Plan.
Alex Joske, the author of the report, said the real number is likely to be much higher and could be associated with up to $280 million in grant fraud - as China looks for clandestine access to the latest technology and other sensitive information.
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Two recent cases illustrate that the United States government’s push against alleged instances of illicit tech transfer to China continues unabated. On January 14, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts announced that a mechanical engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was arrested and charged with wire fraud, failing to file a foreign bank account report, and making a false statement in a tax return, in relation to his alleged relationships with Chinese entities. The day before, on January 13, a chief scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center plead guilty to one count of making false statements about his relationship with the Chinese government in the Manhattan federal court in New York.
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A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor was arrested Thursday and charged with secretly working for China's technology collection programs and failing to disclose the work to the Energy Department.