00:00A new report shows the Pentagon funded hundreds of research projects that helped the Chinese military.
00:09The report comes from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
00:14It shows between June 2023 and June of this year,
00:181,400 published collegiate research papers acknowledge support from Pentagon grants.
00:24Of those, around 700 were done in collaboration with universities in China
00:30who have links to the country's defense industry.
00:34Some of those were even blacklisted by the U.S. government over their work with the Chinese military.
00:41The report cites several specific examples of the collaborative work that has military applications
00:47and goes on to make 14 recommendations to mitigate the issue,
00:52including prohibiting research collaboration with entities on government blacklists and damage assessments.
01:00The report also shows support for new legislation that would ban Defense Department funding
01:06for U.S. universities that operate joint institutes with Chinese universities.
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