Hundreds of U.S. scientists under investigation for being compromised by China

[Gauthier]

The Washington Times
Thursday, April 22, 2021

More than 500 federally funded scientists are under investigation for being compromised by China and other foreign powers, the National Institutes of Health revealed Thursday.

The federal health officials told a Senate committee that they are fighting to keep up with large-scale Chinese efforts to corrupt American researchers and steal intellectual property that scientists hope will lead to biomedical advances.

NIH has contacted more than 90 institutions about more than 200 scientists they’re concerned about, said Dr. Michael S. Lauer, NIH deputy director for extramural research. But the investigations’ workload is weighing down the nation’s top medical research agency, and new cases are turning up constantly across the government.

The Justice Department charged a math professor and university researcher, Mingqing Xiao, on Wednesday with wire fraud over allegations that he hid his Chinese government funding while obtaining funding from the National Science Foundation.

The Southern Illinois University-Carbondale professor, Mingqing Xiao, worked in the mathematics department since 2000 and obtained the Chinese funding starting in 2018, the Justice Department said.

China has targeted research throughout the economy from corn growers to cancer researchers. Last year, Dr. Lauer said, more than 90% of the scientists under investigation had received support from China.

Gary Cantrell, Health and Human Services Department deputy inspector general for investigations, cited the example of researcher Song Guo Zheng, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last year to lying on applications for NIH grants totaling $4.1 million that he admitted were used to enhance Chinese expertise in rheumatology and immunology.

U.S. officials also have sounded the alarm that China has tried to hack COVID-19 research and is intent on pilfering U.S. science and technology because it believes American innovation will enable it to overtake the U.S. as a global superpower.

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[1R0N M4N XL]

compromised? most mainland Chinese are extremely nationalistic, they would give out the tech even without the CCP.

[TheOldNorth]

makes sense

[JamesBond007]

makes sense

Americans are mentally retarded at math and science so they import their scientists generally which is a great weakness. UK generally does better than the USA on Math on the PISA and math is the Queen of the sciences.

If the British,French or Germans ruled the world they would be far ahead of China but America is a Joke thanks to sociopathic boomers.

In the UK scientists are boffins but in the USA they are 'nerds'. Guess which one has a greater negative connotation ?

[TheOldNorth]

Americans are mentally retarded at math and science so they import their scientists generally which is a great weakness. UK generally does better than the USA on Math on the PISA and math is the Queen of the sciences.

If the British,French or Germans ruled the world they would be far ahead of China but America is a Joke thanks to sociopathic boomers.

In the UK scientists are boffins but in the USA they are 'nerds'. Guess which one has a greater negative connotation ?

Americans are the French, British and Germans. None of them could conquer China, the same plague of Marxism that plagues America right now also plagues Britain, France, and Germany, and don't say America is the cause of that, because though we unfortunately helped its spread, it started in Germany and France and would have taken off there even if it hadn't here. America isn't stupid, its suppressed by ideological overlords.

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