US EditionRepublicans Urge US Universities to Cut Ties with Chinese-Backed Scholarship Program
UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – Lawmakers investigate whether hundreds of Chinese graduate students at major U.S. universities aid China’s military-civil fusion through federally funded research, raising national security concerns.
- On Tuesday, House Republicans sent letters urging seven U.S. universities, including Dartmouth and Notre Dame, to cut ties with the China Scholarship Council program.
- Committee Chair John Moolenaar and other lawmakers described the program as being controlled by the Chinese Communist Party with the intent of transferring technology, thereby aiding China’s military and scientific development.
- The letters requested documentation to determine if scholarship recipients participated in federally funded U.S. research and noted that graduates are obligated to spend two years back in China after completing their studies.
- During the 2023-24 school year, Chinese nationals accounted for more than a quarter of the international student population in the U.S., totaling over 270,000 individuals; meanwhile, Rubio pledged to cancel visas for Chinese students enrolled in sensitive academic disciplines.
- These actions have prompted some schools, like Notre Dame and Dartmouth, to end their program participation and intensified debate on enhancing research security without broadly targeting Chinese scholars.
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Republicans urge US universities to cut ties with Chinese-backed scholarship program
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government. In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raise concerns about the schools' partnerships with the China Scholarship Counc…
Republicans urge U.S. universities to cut ties with ‘nefarious’ Chinese-backed scholarship program
House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a 'nefarious mechanism' to steal technology for the Chinese government.
Republicans urge US universities to cut ties with 'nefarious' Chinese-backed scholarship program
House Republicans are urging seven U.S. universities to cut ties with a Chinese scholarship program that lawmakers call a “nefarious mechanism” to steal technology for the Chinese government.In letters to Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and five other universities, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party raise concerns about the schools' partnerships with the China Scholarship Council, a study abroad …
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