Updated
Updated · Fox News · Aug 13
House Panel Says Harvard Co-Authored 140 Papers With Chinese Military Universities as Bill Targets Funding
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Aug 13

House Panel Says Harvard Co-Authored 140 Papers With Chinese Military Universities as Bill Targets Funding

1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Aug 13

Summary

  • More than 140 Harvard-linked papers were co-authored with researchers at China’s “Seven Sons of National Defense,” a House Select Committee report said, casting the university’s research controls as a national-security risk.
  • The report highlighted 2023 work with Beihang University on soft robots for deep-sea exploration and another paper with the National University of Defense Technology on magnetic materials partly backed by the U.S. Army Research Office.
  • Harvard also received more than $600 million from China under federal foreign-gift disclosures, the committee said, and examined an executive-education program that listed officials tied to the sanctioned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
  • Rep. Pat Fallon introduced legislation to cut federal intelligence-related funding from colleges that keep ties to CCP-linked groups, while the committee urged Harvard to bar work with restricted entities and tighten centralized oversight.

Insights

How are massive foreign academic donations secretly reshaping the boundaries of national security and intellectual property?
Will cutting federal intelligence grants to elite colleges actually secure sensitive research, or simply cripple American scientific innovation?