The University of Montreal (UdeM) says two 2019 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) it signed with a China-based educational institution linked to the Chinese military never moved forward to begin actual work.
The China-based school, the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), is on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List, added “for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of programs for the People’s Liberation Army,” activity that’s “contrary to national security and foreign policy interests.”
When contacted by The Epoch Times, UdeM spokeswoman and senior adviser Geneviève O’Meara said, “These MOUs stated that they wanted to explore what could be done jointly between the two institutions, one related to data governance, the other related to student exchanges.”…