Commentary The U.S. Select Committee on the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) sent a letter on June 27 to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, calling on the Biden administration not to renew the Science and Technology Agreement (STA) with communist China, which is set to expire on Aug. 27 on the grounds that the CCP is using U.S….

Applied Materials Inc. is suing Chinese-owned rival Mattson over an alleged 14-month orchestrated campaign to steal some of its most valuable intellectual property. The lawsuit mainly centers around Mattson dedicated efforts to lure key staff members away from Applied Materials and the suspicious circumstances coinciding with their departures. In little more than the span of…

BOSTON—A prominent former Harvard University scientist convicted of concealing his ties to China’s state-run talent recruitment program was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay over $83,000 in restitution and fines. Charles Lieber, who formerly chaired Harvard’s department of chemistry and chemical biology, was found guilty in December 2021 of six…

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) introduced a bill on March 7 to re-establish the China Initiative—a Trump-era program that aimed at countering economic espionage, intellectual property theft, and other threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The legislation (pdf)—called the Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act—is intended to reinstate the China Initiative program,…

Rep. Lance Gooden (R-Texas) introduced a bill on March 7 to re-establish the China Initiative—a Trump-era program that aimed at countering economic espionage, intellectual property theft, and other threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The legislation (pdf)—called the Protect America’s Innovation and Economic Security from CCP Act—is intended to reinstate the China Initiative program,…

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP( has infiltrated into every major U.S. university. “The Chinese Communist Party’s inside every major American university today with research dollars and with their students,” Pompeo said during the “Sunday Morning Futures” program on Fox News on Jan 29. He pointed to…

A former University of Kansas researcher was sentenced to time served without fine or restitution for concealing work he did in China while employed with the university. Feng “Franklin” Tao was sentenced on Jan. 18 for one count of making a false statement. Tao was arrested in 2019 along with some two dozen other researchers…

As reports have emerged that Chinese military-linked firms gather American DNA, these firms are now capable of creating digital replicas of Americans, according to John Mills, former director of cybersecurity policy, strategy, and international affairs at the Department of Defense. “They have the capacity to create these complex models of each of us. They’re making digital…

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is providing financial assistance to the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in its bid to tempt foreign scientists to the country, the National Pulse reported. The Grant The $100,000 grant served the purpose of organizing a forum on “pandemic preparedness and response,” which would focus on “leveraging…

In the aftermath of the Biden administration’s cancelation of the Trump-era anti-espionage program, the China Initiative, one lawmaker is demanding that the Department of Justice (DOJ) be held accountable for countering and reporting on threats from the Chinese regime. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) introduced the Countering Chinese Espionage Reporting Act (H.R. 7325) on March 31….