Blacklisted technology company Huawei has plunged at least £30 million into British universities via research grants and donations.
The Epoch Times can reveal the telecom giant—deemed a national security threat by the United States government—is the biggest China-based donor to higher educational institutions in the UK.
Over the past four years, Huawei and its advanced chip-producing company HiSilicon spent millions of pounds financing expert-led information, technology and communications projects.
One university received £10.7 million in grants since 2017.
The funding has once again sparked concern from critics who say the Beijing bankrolling is putting universities, and the cities where they are based, at risk of “huge” damage….