The Guardian - Thirty US
universities could lose federal funding unless they review and
cut foreign academic partnerships the Pentagon considers a national security
risk within the next two weeks, under a Pentagon directive aimed largely at
ties to Chinese institutions.
Harvard, the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Cornell are among the
institutions ordered to conduct and report the reviews – and end partnerships
deemed problematic – by 31 August, according to a US official who provided the
full list to the Guardian.
“The ‘Department of War’ has zero
tolerance for academic partnerships that compromise our national security,”
Emil Michael, the Pentagon’s chief technology officer, said in a news release.
1 comment:
They are just dancing on the University of California system, listing UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, and UC Berkeley on top of the system itself. San Diego State U. (CSU system) had to dump their ties to the Confucius Institute, a Chinese cultural/linguistics organization that was part of a People's Liberation Army language school in order to keep getting money from the Pentagon for veteran student's stuff (which might need dealings with Veteran's Affairs) about seven years ago.
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