By J.J. Brannock (The Middle Sq.)
Lawmakers are elevating the alarm that ongoing U.S. and Chinese language analysis partnerships are creating expertise that might be used in opposition to the U.S.
Members of the Choose Committee on the CCP despatched a letter to Secretary Antony Blinken this week asking the Biden administration to sever the “Settlement Between the USA and the Folks’s Republic of China on Cooperation in Science and Know-how.”
Within the letter, committee representatives cited reviews that analysis partnerships between the U.S. and China organized underneath the Science and Know-how Settlement have developed expertise that would later be used in opposition to People.
One of many reported partnerships is between the U.S. Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and China’s Meteorological Administration. Beneath the STA’s authority, the teams labored to launch technologically superior climate balloons to check the ambiance in 2018.
“As you understand, a couple of years later, the PRC used comparable balloon expertise to surveil U.S. army websites on U.S. territory,” representatives wrote within the letter.
Chairman on the Choose Committee Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., despatched the letter to Blinken. Convention Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and eight different members of Congress additionally signed the letter.
Different reviews defined the collaboration between the U.S. and China relating to delicate agricultural applied sciences, a few of which included “clear dual-use purposes, equivalent to […] methods for analyzing satellite tv for pc and drone imagery for irrigation administration.”
In late December 2022, CCP Chairman Xi Jinping known as on the PRC to spice up self-reliance in agriculture expertise, which committee representatives linked to the greater than a dozen lively agricultural analysis tasks between the 2 nations.
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“It ought to come as no shock that the PRC will exploit civilian analysis partnerships for army functions to the best extent attainable,” the letter stated. “The PRC brazenly acknowledges its follow of military-civil fusion.”
The Science and Know-how Settlement is ready to run out on Aug. 27 if it’s not renewed by the Biden administration.
Syndicated with permission from The Center Square.
