Some U.S. media recently disclosed that U.S. Ivy League schools and medical schools such as Harvard University, Yale University School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania are collaborating and conducting research on educational programs with the Chinese Communist military or institutions supported by the Chinese Communist government, and also in part for health programs. But these collaborations are considered serious national security risks.
According to The Washington Free Beacon, Harvard University’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health has health partnerships with seven Chinese universities, but at least six assist the Chinese Communist military with research and linkages, thus there are serious security concerns. Among them are Sichuan University, Xi’an Jiaotong University and Tsinghua University, which help develop CCP defense technologies, including nuclear programs. All three universities have ties to the CCP’s cyber espionage activities.
The Yale School of Medicine has a long-standing partnership with the Chinese city of Shenzhen and a network of hospitals throughout China, nominally working to streamline China’s approach to health care. Yale has also assisted in the creation of a database that collects biomedical data on 400,000 Chinese people.
In addition, the University of Pennsylvania Center for Global Health has partnered with Beijing on its own program. Penn’s China Anesthesia Program (The Penn-China Anesthesia Program) collaborates with Peking Union Medical College, one of the leading institutions for medical research in China. The College is under the direct supervision of the Communist Party’s National Health Commission, which has been linked to human rights violations suffered by the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.
At this Time, Harvard, Yale and Penn have not responded on this issue.
Ian Easton, senior director of China Policy at the Project 2049 Institute, said elite universities have inadvertently opened a new front in U.S. competition with China: health care. Such cooperation could violate the privacy of patients in China and the United States.
Maybe you’re not interested in the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), but the CCP is interested in you,” Easton said. It wants to collect all your private data. It wants to use your data against you, your values and your way of Life.” “The danger is real. The Communist Party’s attitude toward medicine will not be benign or perhaps even inhumane, and the Communist Party’s attitude toward the exploitation of the global biotechnology industry is undesirable.”
Easton said that some so-called exchanges by some leading U.S. academic institutions are harming U.S. national security and the interests of the Chinese population. This dangerous relationship cannot be ignored. “The Chinese Communist authorities are committing genocide, which is harmful to humanity. This is now continuing. Right now, Beijing is the most brutal violator of human rights on the planet.”
A State Department report in November warned that the Chinese Communist Party has cultivated anti-American sentiment on U.S. campuses, the report said. A report found that at least $88 million in capital tied to the Communist Party’s military has made its way to U.S. universities.
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