Partnering with the Enemy

Thursday, August 17

U.S. Tech & Defense Firms Partner with Chinese Military on Weapons that could be used Against us. The United States continues to allow American Companies to collaborate with Chinese Aerospace and military firms. A report from Rand shows that the U.S. is the number one provider of technology in many areas of the Chinese Military Complex. Just look at some of Rand's Findings • The effect of U.S.-Chinese research collaboration should be viewed in terms of threats and benefits. We find evidence of both. – In terms of threats, U.S.-based organizations have coauthored more aerospace engineering publications with Chinese organizations with linkages to the People’s Liberation Army in recent years than in the past. ■ There is a nontrivial amount of U.S.-Chinese research collaboration on sensitive topics, such as hypersonic systems. – In terms of benefits, we find that aerospace publications written by teams composed of researchers from the United States and China have greater-than-average influence and are more interdisciplinary The reality is, these collaborations could ultimately be used against us. Nicole Tsai of the New Federal State of China Joins us to discuss. NFSCOfficial.com @NFSCspeaks https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA2300/RRA2308-1/RAND_RRA2308-1.pdf