{"id":1247907,"date":"2022-01-27T15:52:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247907"},"modified":"2022-01-27T15:52:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T20:52:30","slug":"democrats-push-bill-expanding-research-funding-as-chinese-communist-party-steals-secrets-from-u-s-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-push-bill-expanding-research-funding-as-chinese-communist-party-steals-secrets-from-u-s-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Push Bill Expanding Research Funding as Chinese Communist Party Steals Secrets from U.S. Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-push-bill-expanding-research-funding-as-chinese-communist-party-steals-secrets-from-u-s-universities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1247907&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Chinese-Communist-U.S.-Consulate-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Democrats introduced a bill on Wednesday to increase funding for semiconductor research to institutions vulnerable to Chinese espionage, an attempt to regain momentum after the failure of the \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The bill entitled,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/email.punchbowl.news\/t\/t-l-cuhdddl-yhyujrtrtr-y\/\">U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA)<\/a>, is designed to fund high tech research at academic institutions focused on the semiconductor industry.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The United States and Communist China both rely on Taiwan for manufacturing semiconductors. The independent nation near China manufactures 92 percent of the world\u2019s semiconductors that Silicon Valley utilizes for American innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats on Tuesday&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/email.punchbowl.news\/t\/ViewEmail\/t\/2F4973EFE68FBBA42540EF23F30FEDED\/285B195D379BF34946778398EADC2510?alternativeLink=False\">claimed<\/a> the&nbsp;USICA will \u201cturbocharge our research capacity to lead the technologies of the future, and advance our global competitiveness, while supporting strong labor standards and human rights, among other key provisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In section&nbsp;10111 of the bill, it <a href=\"https:\/\/rules.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.rules.house.gov\/files\/BILLS-117HR4521RH-RCP117-31-SxS.pdf\">states<\/a> the legislation will support&nbsp;the \u201cdevelopment of universities\u2019 workforces that foster collaboration between K-12 students, university students, early-career researchers, faculty, and national laboratories.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Critics of the legislation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/01\/26\/democrat-anti-china-bill-riddled-with-woke-climate-change-carveouts19632674\/\">believe<\/a>&nbsp;it lacks safeguards against Chinese espionage.&nbsp;\u201cPresident Biden is telling U.S. research centers, corporations, and colleges not to worry about Chinese espionage,\u201d Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm\/press-releases?id=922A6F76-E619-486C-8F40-5454260EA842\">stated<\/a>&nbsp;after the release of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese Communist Party sees this, and it emboldens them to do even more. Steal more secrets. Steal more technology. Steal more American jobs,\u201d Rubio added. \u201cThis dangerous behavior jeopardizes our national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/05\/16\/exclusive-pompeo-chinese-communist-influence-operations-inside-present-real-risk\/\">told<\/a> Breitbart News in 2020 that Communist China\u2019s influence in the United States universities is a \u201cserious matter\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>You talked about our universities and our research labs. This is not about good Chinese people working on commercial projects. We find that acceptable. This is about the Chinese Communist Party exerting its influence here in the United States for missions that are deeply connected to the regime in China trying to exert influence in places where it ought not to be, and we\u2019re doing everything we can to push back against that.<\/p>\n<p>Though Democrats have objected to Republicans\u2019 contentions and have continued to position the bill as an \u201canti-China\u201d piece of legislation, a pattern of Chinese espionage at American universities throughout recent years is apparent.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Below is a list of professors charged with crimes related to Communist China. Some individuals were convicted and others were found not guilty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>January 2022, MIT,&nbsp;Gang Chen<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/20\/science\/gang-chen-mit-china-initiative.html\">charged<\/a> with failing to disclose&nbsp;\u201cChinese affiliations in grant proposals to U.S. funding agencies.\u201d Federal prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/united-states-drops-case-against-mit-s-gang-chen\">dropped<\/a> the charges because they could not \u201cmeet its burden of proof at trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>December 2021, Harvard, Charles Lieber<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former Chair of Harvard University\u2019s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, Charles Lieber, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-ma\/pr\/harvard-university-professor-convicted-making-false-statements-and-tax-offenses\">convicted<\/a> in December of 2021 for lying about his connection to Communist China\u2019s Thousand Talents Program and the Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in Wuhan, China.&nbsp;Lieber also failed to report income he received from WUT.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>July 2021, UCLA,&nbsp;Yi-Chi Shih<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Professor of electrical engineering&nbsp;Yi-Chi Shih was convicted in \u201ca scheme to illegally export integrated circuits with military applications to China the required filing of electronic export information,\u201d the Justice Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/electrical-engineer-sentenced-more-five-years-prison-conspiring-illegally-export-china\">announced<\/a> in July of 2021.&nbsp;Shih&nbsp;was sentenced to serve more than five years in prison, pay $362,698 in restitution to the IRS, and fined $300,000<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>June 2021, University of Tennessee,&nbsp;Anming Hu<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Associate professor&nbsp;Xiaoxing Xi&nbsp;in the department of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Tennessee was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edtn\/pr\/researcher-university-tennessee-arrested-wire-fraud-and-making-false-statements-about\">charged<\/a>&nbsp;with three counts of wire fraud and three counts of making false statements.&nbsp;Xi was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utdailybeacon.com\/campus_news\/academics\/university-offers-to-reinstate-professor-acquitted-of-espionage-charges\/article_f6d0aabe-38ee-11ec-9c23-57a37bddf43c.html\">found<\/a> not guilty and the university offered to reinstate him in October of 2021.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>April 2021, Temple University,&nbsp;Xiaoxing Xi<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Associate professor&nbsp;Xiaoxing Xi&nbsp;in the department of mechanical, aerospace and biomedical engineering at the University of Temple was \u201caccused in 2015 of stealing sensitive technology involving his research,\u201d the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lawsuits-immigration-philadelphia-arrests-china-35af848dd11d999dd045654d0f0e7ce0\">reported<\/a>. \u201cCharges were dropped when investigators realized the information shared did not amount to trade secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p-rich_text_section\"><b>February&nbsp;2021,&nbsp;Stanford,&nbsp;<\/b><strong>Chen Song<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researcher of brain disease&nbsp;Chen Song was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/federal-charges-against-stanford-university-researcher-expanded\">charged<\/a>&nbsp;in February 0f 2021 with visa fraud, obstruction of justice, destruction of documents, and false statements in connection with a scheme to conceal and lie about her status as a member of the People\u2019s Republic of China\u2019s military forces while in the United States, according to the Justice Department. It appears this case is ongoing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>August 2020,&nbsp;Texas A&amp;M,&nbsp;Zhengdong Cheng<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NASA researcher Zhengdong Cheng,<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>who worked on&nbsp;U.S. space projects, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nasa-researcher-arrested-false-statements-and-wire-fraud-relation-china-s-talents-program\">charged<\/a> in August of 2020 with conspiracy, making false statements, and wire fraud. According to the Justice Department, Cheng \u201cwillfully took steps to obscure his affiliations and collaboration with a Chinese University and at least one Chinese-owned company.\u201d It appears this case is ongoing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>&nbsp;@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats introduced a bill on Wednesday to increase funding for semiconductor research to institutions vulnerable to Chinese espionage, an attempt to regain momentum after the failure of the \u201cBuild Back &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}