Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around such partnerships have failed.
The study is believed to be the first of its kind to put a dollar figure — $943.5 million — on such collaborations, which critics have cited as examples of the US unwisely aiding its top adversary’s military, and using taxpayer money to do so. The report was published by the nonpartisan Center for Research Security & Integrity, a Virginia-based nonprofit.
The report doesn’t ...