U.S. universities have failed to disclose millions of dollars in funding from China, a report released Wednesday found.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) has received $87.5 million from China since 2013, in addition to the separately reported $59.4 million from Hong Kong and $57.5 million from Taiwan, and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) Received $162.8 in foreign funds. , within the same period, at least $32.3 million of which came from China; According to To a new report from OpenTheBooks. According to the 2024 Chinese Communist Party House Special Committee, both universities showed “serious failures in reporting foreign funding” while accepting the funds. investigationHe also predicted that unreported but “probably hundreds of millions, if not billions in total” of Chinese dollars are flowing into American universities.
The two universities are partnering with China's Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute (TBSI), and the program is through Tsinghua University, which has campuses in Shenzhen, China, and near both universities in the United States, according to OpenTheBooks. committee too discovered This program and others “serve as a conduit for the transfer of critical U.S. technology and expertise to China, including to China's defense establishment and organizations associated with the security apparatus that China uses to facilitate human rights abuses.” ” was used for this purpose. According to the report, both universities promptly began the process of severing ties with their Chinese counterparts around the time of the committee's investigation.
World War II veteran UC Berkeley on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, the oldest and original university forming the University of California system, photographed on May 4, 2024 in Berkeley, California. A plaque marking the memorial space dedicated to alumni of the school. (Photo by Jay L. Clendenin/Getty Images)
According to the OpenTheBooks report, such programs are operated through China's defense agency, the State Administration of Defense Science, Technology and Industry, and have the stated goal of “strengthening the military with additional personnel and more advanced equipment.” is listed. (Related: China's new education blueprint aims to expand global influence)
Funding for Georgia Tech went unreported for eight years, with the university claiming details were “unintentionally omitted,” OpenTheBooks has learned. During the first Trump administration, a House committee found that multiple universities received $6.5 billion in unreported funding from “countries that posed a significant threat to national security,” the report details. I am doing it.
Several other schools, including Ohio State University and the University of Texas, have also accepted millions of dollars in foreign funding, much of it from China.
The University of California, Berkeley and Georgia Tech did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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