{"id":1676157,"date":"2022-10-06T12:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1676157"},"modified":"2022-10-06T12:54:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T16:54:18","slug":"house-gop-demands-investigation-into-chinese-ties-to-top-u-s-nuclear-and-weapons-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-demands-investigation-into-chinese-ties-to-top-u-s-nuclear-and-weapons-site\/","title":{"rendered":"House GOP Demands Investigation Into Chinese Ties to Top U.S. Nuclear and Weapons Site"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fhouse-gop-demands-investigation-into-chinese-ties-to-top-u-s-nuclear-and-weapons-site%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=1676157&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><\/div>\n<p>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\">House Republicans<\/a><br \/>\n <span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">a<\/span>re calling on the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\">Biden administration<\/a><br \/>\n to investigate the<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/china\">Chinese government\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/patriotism-unity\/us-unprepared-to-deal-with-chinas-intel-infiltration\">economic espionage efforts<\/a><br \/>\n at U.S. research labs following a damning report about Beijing\u2019s apparent extensive efforts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans wrote to \u201cexpress our serious concerns\u201d about a new report seeming to show decadeslong Chinese government-linked infiltration into New Mexico\u2019s Los Alamos National Laboratory, a U.S. weapons and nuclear research site, \u201cand to learn what steps your offices are taking to protect our critical research from malign talent recruitment programs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The Tuesday letter, led by Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) and 10 other House Republicans, was addressed to<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/energy-department\">Secretary of Energy<\/a><br \/>\n Jennifer Granholm and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar.\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/patriotism-unity\/us-unprepared-to-deal-with-chinas-intel-infiltration\">US UNPREPARED TO HANDLE CHINESE INTEL INFILTRATION<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Waltz told the <i>Washington Examiner<\/i>, \u201cThe Chinese Communist Party, particularly under Xi Jinping, explicitly aims to become the dominant world superpower in the next decade, and they aim to do it through technology.\u201d He said the Chinese government is \u201crapidly passing us in those areas because they are stealing their way to the top \u2014 and a key avenue for which they are stealing their way to the top is through our research labs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>The congressman added that \u201cit\u2019s almost a fait accompli that [the Chinese government] got some of our sensitive technologies\u201d through the communist nation\u2019s efforts at Los Alamos.\n<\/p>\n<p>The warning was sparked by a September<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.striderintel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Strider-Los-Alamos-Report.pdf\">report<\/a><br \/>\n by Strider Technologies, a private intelligence firm, titled \u201cThe Los Alamos Club: How the People\u2019s Republic of China Recruited Leading Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory to Advance Its Military Programs.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The report concluded that at least 162 scientists who had worked at Los Alamos returned to China \u201cto support a variety of domestic research and development programs\u201d between 1987 and 2021, with 15 of the scientists having worked as permanent staff at Los Alamos and, of the 15, 13 having been recruited into \u201cChinese government talent programs.&#8221; The investigation found at least 59 of the scientists had been part of China\u2019s Thousand Talents Program or its Youth Thousand Talents Program.\n<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/china-risk-to-academia-2019.pdf\/view\">repeatedly<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/news\/speeches\/the-threat-posed-by-the-chinese-government-and-the-chinese-communist-party-to-the-economic-and-national-security-of-the-united-states\">warned<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> about China\u2019s Thousand Talents economic espionage program, and Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) released a report in July about how that Chinese effort also <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/foreign\/federal-reserve-targeted-ccp-thousand-talents-senator-warns\">targeted the Federal Reserve over many years<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Department of Energy\u2019s world-leading national laboratories, like Los Alamos National Laboratory, play a critical role in the U.S. research ecosystem,\u201d the House Republicans wrote, adding, \u201cUnfortunately, \u2018The Los Alamos Club\u2019 confirms the concerns surrounding malign talent recruitment programs, clearly demonstrating that the CCP\u2019s had been successful at stealing and capitalizing on our research and development. As a result, these malign talent recruitment programs have now resulted in a tangible national security threat to the United States.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>The Los Alamos Club report contended that \u201csince returning to China, Los Alamos alumni have helped the PRC advance key military and dual-use technologies in areas such as hypersonics, deep-earth penetrating warheads, unmanned autonomous vehicles, jet engines, and submarine noise reduction.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>A former Los Alamos scientist<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-nm\/pr\/former-scientist-los-alamos-national-laboratory-pleads-guilty-federal-court-making-false\">pleaded guilty<\/a><br \/>\n in 2020 to a charge of making a false statement to a federal investigator about his involvement in China\u2019s Thousand Talents Program. He received<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/former-employee-los-alamos-national-laboratory-sentenced-probation-making-false-statements\">five years of probation<\/a><br \/>\n.\n<\/p>\n<p>Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said in March that the Chinese government remains the <u><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/us-intelligence-views-china-as-unparalleled-long-term-priority\">\u201cabsolutely unparalleled\u201d long-term priority<\/a><br \/>\n<\/u> for the U.S. intelligence community\n<\/p>\n<p>The Energy Department didn\u2019t respond directly to the Los Alamos Club report findings last month.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In response to growing research security threats, the Department of Energy has taken significant steps in recent years, including the adoption of rigorous vetting, counterintelligence reviews, and restrictions on participation in foreign talent programs,&#8221; a department spokesman<br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/scientists-americas-top-nuclear-lab-recruited-china-design-missiles-dr-rcna48834\">said<\/a><br \/>\n. &#8220;The Department of Energy also implements procedures to ensure compliance with U.S. export licensing requirements, including those governing the release of controlled technology to foreign nationals in the United States.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans are calling on the Biden administration to investigate the Chinese government\u2019s economic espionage efforts at U.S. research labs following a damning report about Beijing\u2019s apparent extensive efforts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1676159,"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-1676157","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\/1676157","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=1676157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1676159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1676157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1676157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1676157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}