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Print this article The U.S. intelligence community is sounding the alarm about the national security threat posed by China, with two major recent intelligence assessments warning about aggressive actions the Communist Party takes to maintain and grow its power in the world. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an annual threat assessment on Tuesday ahead of a Worldwide Threats hearing scheduled for Wednesday, with the report leading off with a lengthy description of Ch...

90 Percent of Australia’s Imported Solar Panels Are Made in China Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows ninety percent of all solar panels imported into Australia came directly from China during the first 9 months of the 2020 financial year. This cost Australia $1.1 billion (US$850 million), and from 2015 to 2020, Australia spent more than $5.3 billion (US$4 billion) on Chinese-made solar panels. Federal Independent MP Craig Kelly expressed concern over the huge expenditure, say...

Attorneys defending former Chemistry department chair Charles M. Lieber, who was charged with lying to federal authorities examining his ties to China, said during a status conference last week that Lieber’s cancer diagnosis and deteriorating health call for an expedient trial. As the trial looms, legal experts spoke with The Crimson about Lieber’s possible defense strategies, which might implicate Harvard and draw attention to University policies around foreign funding disclosure. Fe...

 E-Mail IMAGE: This portrait shows the tritylodontid Fossiomanus sinensis (upper right) and the eutriconodontan Jueconodon cheni in burrows; both lived the Early Cretaceous Jehol Biota (about 120 million years ago), northeastern China,... view more  Credit: © Chuang Zhao Paleontologists have discovered two new species of mammal-like, burrowing animals that lived about 120 million years ago in what is now northeastern China. The new species, described today in the journal Nature, are...

A China’s state planners are notorious as purveyors of billions of yuan of budgetary spending, intimidating industrial policy and soaring technology goals. The Five-Year Plan — Beijing’s periodic, Soviet-style economic blueprint — often sends shivers through the country’s rivals. But the latest one is a lot more down to earth. In the 14th Five-Year Plan, several of Beijing’s economic development and innovation targets have been set for just one year ahead. That is much more sen...

Will be screened like military and dual-use tech.

US Lawmakers Urge Biden Officials to Stay Tough on China During Upcoming Talks TAIPEI, Taiwan—U.S. Lawmakers are calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan to be tough on Beijing when they meet with Chinese officials in Alaska next week. “Communist China is America’s greatest national security threat,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said, according to a March 11 statement. “General Secretary Xi [Jinping] knows President Biden is weak on China an...

By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia will draw up a list of critical and emerging technologies that are subject to restrictions on foreign r...

Australia will draw up a list of critical and emerging technologies that are subject to restrictions on foreign research collaboration, a parliament intelligence committee heard on Thursday.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: China employs its Thousand Talents Program (“TTP”) to recruit overseas academic and scientific talent to work in China by promising research funding from the Chinese government and, occasionally, compensation. TTP has drawn increased scrutiny from the U.S. government, specifically the FBI and the Department of Justice, over purported concerns of intellectual property theft or espionage. However, a closer review of the actual charg...