Pentagon Investigating Chinese Research Partnerships With U.S. Universities

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The Defense Department is investigating research partnerships between Chinese companies and American universities amid threats of spying and technology theft on behalf of Beijing’s government, a senior official said Thursday.
Michael Griffin, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said the concern is particularly pressing at U.S. campuses that both have ties with Chinese firms and host sensitive Pentagon research.
“I am concerned that we are not yet as vigilant as we should be about making sure that [Pentagon] research doesn’t go to places that have those ties,” Griffin testified before the House Armed Services Committee. “Certainly, universities have a very long, multi-decade history of collaboration with the national security community writ large on problems of national interest, it’s one of our greatest strengths, but doing so in an environment that can be penetrated by adversaries is not wise and we are looking more closely to that.”

More at: http://freebeacon.com/national-secur...-universities/

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This could be a slippery slope, where will this all stop?

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Ivanka Trump Wins China Trademarks, Then Her Father Vows to Save ZTE

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Ivanka Trump at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland in March. Her growing portfolio of trademarks in China raises questions about whether Chinese officials are giving the Trump family extra consideration that they otherwise might not get.CreditTom Brenner/The New York TimesBy Sui-Lee Wee

• May 28, 2018

BEIJING — China this month awarded Ivanka Trump seven new trademarks across a broad collection of businesses, including books, housewares and cushions.
At around the same time, President Trump vowed to find a way to prevent a major Chinese telecommunications company from going bust, even though the company has a history of violating American limits on doing business with countries like Iran and North Korea.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/28/b...rademarks.html