Rep. John Moolenaar (R-MI), Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, raised serious national security concerns about Chinese influence in American universities during an interview Friday on Fox Business Network’s Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street. He warned that U.S. academic institutions are vulnerable to infiltration and intellectual property theft by Chinese nationals tied to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of the General Counsel (OGC) has opened an investigation into the University of Michigan (UM) after the university was caught accepting, and failing to disclose, sources of foreign funding.