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Intelligence officials voice alarm over US researchers’ collaboration with China
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For many years, American and Chinese scholars worked shoulder to shoulder on cutting-edge technologies through open research, where findings are freely shared and accessible to all. But that openness, a long-standing practice celebrated for advancing knowledge, is raising alarms among some U.S. lawmakers.
They are worried that China — now considered the most formidable challenger to American military dominance — is taking advantage of open research to catch up with the U.S. on military technology and even gain an edge. And they are calling for action.
«For far too long, our adversaries have exploited American colleges and universities to advance their interests, while risking our national security and innovation,» said Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican and chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee. He has introduced legislation to put new restrictions on federally funded research collaboration with academics at several Chinese institutions that work with the Chinese military, as well as institutions in other countries deemed adversarial to U.S. interests.
Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., urged the DOD to re-examine their contract with a Chinese-owned financial corporation that provides tutoring for U.S. military families. (Tom Williams/Getty Images)
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party makes it a priority to protect American research, having accused Beijing of weaponizing open research by converting it into a «pipeline of foreign talent and military modernization.»
The rising concerns on Capitol Hill threaten to unravel deep, two-generations-old academic ties between the countries even as the world’s two largest economies are moving away from each other through tariffs and trade barriers. The relationship has shifted from engagement to competition, if not outright enmity.
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«Foreign adversaries are increasingly exploiting the open and collaborative environment of U.S. academic institutions for their own gain,» said James Cangialosi, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, which in August issued a bulletin urging universities to do more to protect research from foreign meddling.
The House committee released three reports in September alone. They targeted, respectively, Pentagon-funded research involving military-linked Chinese scholars; joint U.S.-China institutes that train STEM talent for China; and visa policies that have brought military-linked Chinese students to Ph.D. programs at American universities. The reports recommend more legislation to protect U.S. research, tighter visa policies to vet Chinese students and scholars and an end to academic partnerships that could be exploited to boost China’s military powers.
More than 500 U.S. universities and institutes have collaborated with Chinese military researchers in recent years, helping Beijing develop advanced technologies with military applications, such as anti-jamming communications and hypersonic vehicles, according to a report by the private U.S. intelligence group Strider Technologies.
A member of the People’s Liberation Army stands as the maritime operations group displays YJ-19 hypersonic anti-ship missiles during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, Sept. 3, 2025. (Tingshu Wang/Reuters)
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Despite efforts in recent years by the U.S. government to set up guardrails to prevent such collaboration from boosting China’s military capabilities, the practice is still prevalent, according to Strider, based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
The report identified nearly 2,500 publications produced in collaboration between U.S. entities and Chinese military-affiliated research institutes in 2024 on STEM research, which includes physics, engineering, material science, computer science, biology, medicine and geology. While the number peaked at more than 3,500 in 2019, before some new restrictive measures came into effect, the level of collaboration remains high, the report said.
This collaboration not only facilitates «potential illicit knowledge transfer,» but supports China’s «state-directed efforts to recruit top international talent, often to the detriment of U.S. national interests,» the report said.
Foreign countries can exploit American research by stealing secrets for use in military and commercial settings, by poaching talented researchers for foreign companies and universities and by recruiting students and researchers as potential spies, authorities say.
Fostering a climate of robust academic research takes funding and long-term support. Stealing the fruits of that labor, however, can be as easy as hacking into a university network, hiring away researchers or coopting the research itself. That’s why, authorities say, it’s so tempting for American adversaries looking to take advantage of U.S. institutions and research.
The most recent threat assessment report from the Department of Homeland Security highlights concerns that American adversaries — and China specifically — seek to illicitly acquire U.S. technology. Authorities say China aims to steal military and computing technology that might give the U.S. an advantage, as well as the latest commercial innovations.
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A staff member works on a simulation experiment of unmanned aerial vehicle UAV at the State Key Laboratory of Public Big Data at Guizhou University in Guiyang, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, May 23, 2023. (Liu Xu/ Getty Images)
Abigail Coplin, assistant professor of sociology and science, technology and society at Vassar College, said there are already guardrails for federally funded research to protect classified information and anything deemed sensitive.
She also said open research goes both ways, benefiting the U.S. as well, and restrictions could be counterproductive by driving away talent.
«American national security interests and economic competitiveness would be better served by continuing — if not increasing — research funding than they are by implementing costly research restrictions,» Coplin said.
Arnie Bellini, a tech entrepreneur and investor, also said efforts to protect U.S. research risk stifling progress if they go too far and prevent U.S. colleges or startups from sharing information about new and emerging technology. Keeping up with China will also require big investments in efforts to protect innovation, said Bellini, who recently donated $40 million to establish a new cybersecurity and AI research college at the University of South Florida.
Bellini said it’s imperative to encourage research and development without giving secrets away to America’s enemies.
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«In the U.S., it is a reality now that our digital borders are under siege — and businesses of every size are right to be concerned,» Bellini said.
According to Department of Justice figures, about 80% of all economic espionage cases prosecuted in the U.S. involve alleged acts that would benefit China.
Some members of Congress have pushed to reinstate a Department of Justice program created during the first Trump administration that sought to investigate Chinese intellectual espionage. The so-called «ChinaInitiative» ended in 2022 after critics said it failed to address the problem even as it perpetrated racist stereotypes about Asian American academics.
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Former Rep. Gohmert blasts Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records in J6 probe
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EXCLUSIVE: Former Rep. Louie Gohmert blasted ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records as part of his investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots, telling Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that his action «destroys the checks and balances that the founders counted on.»
Fox News Digital exclusively reported Thursday morning that Smith targeted then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s personal, private phone records, as well as Gohmert’s.
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Fox News Digital exclusively reviewed the document that FBI Director Kash Patel recently shared with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Sen. Ron Johnson containing the explosive revelations. Grassley and Johnson have been leading a joint investigation into Smith’s «Arctic Frost» probe.
Former Rep. Louie Gohmert blasted ex-Special Counsel Jack Smith for allegedly targeting his personal phone records. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)
According to the document, Smith, on Jan. 24, 2023, allegedly sought the «toll records for the personal cell phones of U.S. Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (AT&T) and U.S. Representative Louie Gohmert (Verizon.)»
The information was included as part of a «significant case notification» drafted by the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division May 25, 2023.
«It is astounding that Jack ‘Frost’ Smith went on this persecution,» Gohmert told Fox News Digital Thursday. «Apparently, this guy has never read the Fourth Amendment because you have to describe with particularity what it is you’re going after — there should be probable cause, and they had no probable cause. They were going on a witch hunt.»
Smith had sought Gohmert’s personal cellphone records from November 2020 through the end of January 2021.
«They don’t have any regard for the Fourth Amendment,» he said. «It makes Watergate look like school yard folly.»
But Gohmert said it is the «principle.»
Then-Special Counsel Jack Smith’s case cost taxpayers more than $50 million. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
«It is the separation of powers that is the problem,» Gohmert explained. «People and whistleblowers contacted me regularly from within the DOJ and the FBI about overreach within the FBI and DOJ. By grabbing my records, they could stifle reporting of potential crimes by people within the agencies.»
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«You can’t just go seize members of Congress’ records even with a warrant because of that separation of powers,» Gohmert said. «There has to be a wall and that’s what troubles me more than anything.»
Gohmert told Fox News Digital that he didn’t remember who he spoke with during the time period Smith sought records, but said that «the last thing I want is for someone who trusted me to keep their name private to have some jack-booted thug like Jack ‘Frost’ Smith grab my records and find out who is tattle tailing on him.»
He added: «It violates and destroys the checks and balances that the founders counted on.»
Gohmert, though, told Fox News Digital that he trusts the current Justice Department and FBI leadership.
«I trust the DOJ and trust the people running the FBI,» he said. «We’ll see if there were any crimes committed and, if following the Constitution, they can be properly prosecuted.»
HAGERTY PRESSES VERIZON OVER FBI’S ACCESS TO HIS PHONE RECORDS DURING JACK SMITH PROBE
Meanwhile, McCarthy said he will take legal action against Smith.
Former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said he will take legal action against Jack Smith. (Jose Luis Magana/The Associated Press)
«Jack Smith’s radical and deranged investigation was never about finding the truth,» McCarthy told Fox News Digital. «It was a blatant weaponizing of the Justice Department to attack political opponents of the Biden administration. Perhaps no action underscores this point more than the illegal attempt to access the phone records of sitting members of the House and Senate — including the Speaker of the House.»
«His illegal targeting demands real accountability,» McCarthy continued. «And I am confident Congress will hold hearings and access documents in its investigation into Jack Smith’s own abuses.»
HAGERTY PRESSES VERIZON OVER FBI’S ACCESS TO HIS PHONE RECORDS DURING JACK SMITH PROBE
«At the same time, I will ask my own counsel to pursue all areas of redress so this does not happen to anyone else,» McCarthy said.
The revelations come after Fox News Digital exclusively reported in October that Smith and his «Arctic Frost» team investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots were tracking the private communications and phone calls of nearly a dozen Republican senators as part of the probe, including Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and GOP Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.
An official told Fox News Digital that those records were collected in 2023 by Smith and his team after subpoenaing major telephone providers.
Smith has called his decision to subpoena and track Republican lawmakers’ phone records «entirely proper» and consistent with Justice Department policy.
«As described by various Senators, the toll data collection was narrowly tailored and limited to the four days from January 4, 2021 to January 7, 2021, with a focus on telephonic activity during the period immediately surrounding the January 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol,» Smith’s lawyers wrote in October to Grassley.
Grassley, R-Iowa, and Johnson, R-Wis., have been investigating the matter.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., have been investigating the matter. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
An FBI official told Fox News Digital that «Arctic Frost» is a «prohibited case,» and that the review required FBI officials to go «above and beyond in order to deliver on this promise of transparency.» The discovery is part of a broader ongoing review, Fox News Digital has learned.
Smith, after months of investigating, charged President Donald Trump in the U.S. District Court for Washington, D.C., in his 2020 election case, but after Trump was elected president, Smith sought to dismiss the case. Judge Tanya Chutkan granted that request.
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Smith’s case cost taxpayers more than $50 million.
Smith did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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Qué leer esta semana: autorretrato de una niña violada por su padrastro, Viviana Rivero y la verdad sobre el cuidado del riñón
Sí, los libros nos acompañan bajo las frazadas en invierno y en la felicidad del aire libre o de una buena ventana cuando la temperatura empieza a subir. Los temas que tocan pueden ser reconfortantes como la primavera o de una dureza acorde con lo más polar del invierno. Esta semana tendremos un poco de todo.
Aquí hablaremos de Triste tigre, una verdadera historia de terror publicada por Anagrama y narrada con calidad literaria por Neige Sinno, la mujer que era una nena cuando su padrastro la violaba, entre los siete y los 14 años. Tambien de Secretos de sangre, donde la escritora argentina Viviana Rivero retoma personajes de su primer éxito para narrar historias cruzadas entre la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Argentina contemporánea. Y, finalmente, de Por mis riñones que hoy como diez veces bien, donde el médico Borja Quiroga y el cocinero Miguel Cobo muestran cómo cuidar en serio los riñones, sin caer en mitos. Como agregado, un bonus track, gratis, de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, que en estos días compite por el National Book Award, el gran premio literario de los Estados Unidos.
Todos los libros de los que aqui hablamos se consiguen en formato digital o audiolibro, para aprovechar comodidad y precio.
Muy triste, muy, muy triste lo que cuenta Neige Sinno. El tipo es un seductor, la gente lo quiere, incluso después de que confesó lo quieren, algo como “un buen tipo que violó a una nena”, ese tremendo oxímoron que la empatía puede generar. O, para decirlo, mejor: “Ese buen tipo que violaba a una nena”. Porque no fue una vez, fueron siete años. No fue en una calle oscura: fue en la casa donde él vivía como el marido de la madre de Neige y el padre de sus medio hermanos. No fue “un poquito” fue penetrando, poniéndole el miembro en la boca e incluso usando zanahorias y zapallitos cuando había que hacer lugar.
Triste tigre
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Sinno, nacida en 1977, lo cuenta todo ahora, que es una mujer grande pero no deja espacio para creer que “ya pasó”. Aunque siguió su vida, estudió en Estados Unidos y vive en México, se casó y tiene una hija, no permite, en el texto, que nos vayamos tranquilos, con la ilusión de la víctima que superó todo y curó sus heridas. La herida estará para siempre, aunque sea en forma de cicatriz.
Otro aspecto notable es el análisis que hace de Lolita, la novela de Vladimir Nabokov publicada en 1955 que tanta controversia causó. Se trataba, justamente, de la relación entre un adulto y una chica de 12 años. ¿Relación?¿Romance? Sinno destruye cualquier interpretación en ese sentido y valora la manera en que el autor muestra la cabeza de “alguien que hace el mal de forma deliberada”.
Triste tigre es un plato fuerte, para paladares duros. Inolvidable.
Un médico argentino que reside en Nueva York encuentra una acusación de nazi pintada en la fachada de su casa y, tras el impacto, decide investigar el pasado de su abuelo, un diplomático alemán que se refugió en Mar Chiquita, Córdoba durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La búsqueda lo lleva a la Argentina, donde el silencio que rodea la figura de Marthin Müller y el encuentro con Coralina Carreño, una joven madre con un secreto, abren nuevas incógnitas familiares.
Secretos de sangre
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La novela alterna entre la época de la guerra y el presente, situando parte de la trama en el Hotel Viena, donde Marthin Müller y su esposa Amalia vivieron una intensa historia de amor. En la actualidad, la relación entre Alex y Coralina se convierte en el eje para desentrañar secretos familiares largamente ocultos.
Viviana Rivero, autora de esta obra, nació en Córdoba, Argentina, y divide su residencia entre su ciudad natal y Madrid, España. Es abogada y antes de dedicarse a la literatura trabajó como asesora legal y dirigió grupos de autoliderazgo femenino. También fue productora y directora de televisión. Entre sus títulos más destacados figuran Secreto bien guardado, Mujer y maestra, Y ellos se fueron, La dama de noche y Los soles de Santiago. Sus libros, publicados en España y otros países de habla hispana y traducidos al italiano, han alcanzado una gran repercusión de público y crítica. Actualmente, Rivero es profesora en el máster de literatura de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU).
¿Será verdad que beber dos litros de agua cada día beneficia a tus riñones? La hormona EPO, responsable de oxigenar la sangre, se produce en los riñones. Allí también se origina la proteína klotho, relacionada con el envejecimiento y la longevidad. A pesar de su importancia, los riñones siguen siendo uno de los órganos más complejos y menos comprendidos del cuerpo.
Por mis riñones que hoy como diez veces bien
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En la décima edición de este libro, Miguel Cobo convoca a diez chefs con estrella Michelin en España. Cada uno comparte una receta diseñada para una alimentación equilibrada, demostrando que cuidar la salud renal y disfrutar de la gastronomía pueden ir de la mano. El doctor Borja Quiroga acompaña cada plato con recomendaciones médicas claras y útiles para proteger el bienestar sin renunciar al placer.
Este volumen pone en el centro a los riñones, mucho más que simples filtros de desechos. Su buen funcionamiento es clave para una vida larga y saludable. ¿Seguro de que tus riñones no te están dando señales de alerta?
Es bastante impactante que una escritora con una mirada tan profunda sobre América latina, la colonización, el derecho a la más radical de las diferencias y el impacto de la civilización sobre la naturaleza esté en la “lista corta” de uno de los grandes premios internacionales de literatura. Pero así es. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara está viajando a Nueva York donde el 19 de noviembre se hará el anuncio.
El onceavo dorado
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Mientras tanto, se puede leer, gratis, El onceavo dorado, un cuento que Cabezón Cámara publicó a través de Leamos, la editorial digital de Infobae.
Desde el barro de la villa hasta el piso once de un edificio lujoso, Ariel experimenta un ascenso marcado por la distancia de la pobreza, la violencia y el hambre. En ese entorno de privilegios, rodeado de cocaína pura, promesas de riqueza y compañía ocasional, planea escapar al extranjero.
La aparente seguridad de Ariel se ve amenazada por la traición, ya que su posición resulta ser la de un peón dentro de un sistema que manipula y destruye vidas con precisión implacable. La autora Gabriela Cabezón Cámara expone en su relato la brutalidad de un engranaje social que compra lealtades y sacrifica personas, mientras el lujo y el progreso encubren una inminente catástrofe.
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