US is boosting China’s defense technology |
The Chinese Communist Party wants to be the world’s sole superpower. To achieve its vision of global dominance, China is getting help from an unexpected source: the United States. A recently published U.S. congressional report highlights how Beijing is exploiting American resources and technology.
The report, titled “Containment Breach,” provides an exhaustive overview of how the CCP is utilizing the Energy Department’s intellectual property. The investigation found a “pervasive and deeply troubling pattern of U.S. taxpayer-funded research being conducted in collaboration with Chinese entities that are directly tied to China’s defense research and industrial base—many of which appear on various U.S. government national security entity lists.”
The report notes that some of this technology is central to the growing competition between Washington and Beijing, including “research in sensitive technical........