Category: Thousand Talents Program

Beijing Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


Beijing as Largest National Security Risk in University Research Sector: Aussie Senate Report

Australia’s taxpayer-funded university research sector has long been targeted by authoritarian regimes resulting in the transfer of sensitive research, with a new government report specifically identifying the Chinese regime as the largest, but not the only, culprit of foreign interference. In the report, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) found several instances where…


DOJ’s ‘China Initiative’ Targeted CCP: Former Acting Attorney General

Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general under the Trump administration, said the recently-terminated “China Initiative” program was not targeting Chinese Americans but rather the Chinese regime. “It is targeted specifically at the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] that has been destabilizing our country,” Whitaker said in an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program at…


DOJ’s Now-Shuttered ‘China Initiative’ Targeted CCP: Former Acting Attorney General

Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general under the Trump administration, said the recently-terminated “China Initiative” program was not targeting Chinese Americans but rather the Chinese regime. “It is targeted specifically at the Chinese Communist Party [CCP] that has been destabilizing our country,” Whitaker said in an interview with EpochTV’s “China Insider” program at…


American Traitors: Academics Working for China

Commentary It took a federal jury in Boston less than three hours to return guilty verdicts on all six felony counts against Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard University’s Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology. Lieber, “one of the country’s top research chemists” according to the New York Times, lied to the FBI about his participation in…


Espionage Is a Fundamental Engine Behind China’s Economic Growth

News Analysis The Chinese economy has benefited from decades of purposeful economic espionage focused on acquiring Western technology, intellectual property, and general economic know-how. Communist China’s long-term economic strategy is aimed at replacing the U.S.-dominated post-World War II order, which was established by the United Nations and the Bretton Woods international monetary framework, with an…


Distinguished US Professors Participated in Controversial Chinese Recruitment Plan: Leaked Documents

Several prominent professors at American colleges have participated in China’s talent acquisition program, according to leaked documents from a Chinese regional authority. The professors worked with the Thousand Talents Program (TTP), a controversial state-backed recruitment plan criticized by U.S. officials for its role in transferring Western research and technology to China. Two of the professors…


A Nuclear Breakout by Red China Has Always Been in Play

Commentary The China Aerospace Studies Institute at the U.S. Air Force’s Air University recently posted some overhead photos of a possible intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) silo site in Hanggin Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. The ICBM silo is the third of three such sites in which there has been a flurry of media reports in…


Student Newspaper Takes Down Story on Academics Linked to CCP

Editors of a student-run newspaper in an Australian university have been slammed for their decision to withdraw an article detailing two academics’ ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) due to the current “escalating Sinophobia” in society. University of Sydney’s Honi Soit newspaper released a story on March 31 claiming two professors from its engineering…


Researcher Under FBI Investigation for Allegedly Hiding Ties to China

A Chinese researcher who once worked at The Jackson Laboratory is under FBI investigation, for allegedly failing to disclose his financial ties to China in applications for U.S. government funding. Ruan Yijun, a geneticist, failed to disclose his participation in a Chinese state-sponsored recruitment program called the Thousand Talents program and his collaboration agreement with…