According to public and nonpublic information compiled in a November report issued by the Senate Homeland Security select subcommittee on investigations, very. TTP members stole U.S.-funded Department of Energy research for Chinese institutions. The National Institutes of Health is only now investigating the loss of intellectual property and capital to China; meanwhile, the National Science Foundation has no one dedicated to grant oversight at all. Even the U.S. State Department—which under Mike Pompeo’s leadership has taken a tough stance on China—is behind on flagging Chinese nationals with potential ties to intellectual property theft.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-12/china-s-thousand-talents-program-finally-gets-the-u-s-s-attention
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