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82-8000 VIP 747 out of JBA on a maintenance flight
French AF ROXAN25 E-3C Sentry AWACS over Loire Valley
NATO02 E-3A Sentry AWACS lapping over southern France just east of Toulouse
R01052 US Army C-560 departed JB Lewis-McChord and on ground at Billings, MT- look like they are retracing the trip of 526-next stoop should be Des Moines, IA
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VENUS30 USAF Clipper n from JBA doign fly overs at Albany, NY-Int'l Airport
63-8887 USAF KC-135R Stratotanker setting up east of Belize from Mac Dill AFB, Tampa
RAF RRR2187 Airbus Voyager KC3 ne from NAS Jax-this came in on the trail of POTUS' flight yesterday
Dutch Coast Guard CG82 Dash 8 departed Curacao and ne
US-China big chill may freeze out Chinese students from American university research labs
Three lawmakers propose bill to prohibit students from Chinese mainland studying STEM subjects in US. Chinese Communist Party has long used American universities to conduct espionage on the United States,’ Republican Senator Tom Cotton says.
American universities may be next to feel the big chill in China-US relations
as a group of US lawmakers are proposing a bill to ban mainland Chinese from studying science and technology in the United States, arguing they pose a threat to national security.
The two senators and one member of the House of Representatives on Wednesday said the Secure Campus Act would effectively bar Chinese nationals from receiving visas for graduate or postgraduate study in so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields. Those from Taiwan and Hong Kong would be exempt.
“The Chinese Communist Party
has long used American universities to conduct espionage on the United States,” said Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, one of the sponsors of the bill and a critic of Beijing.
“What’s worse is that their efforts exploit gaps in current law. It’s time for that to end,” he said. “The Secure Campus Act will protect our national security and maintain the integrity of the American research enterprise.” The proposed legislation comes as diplomatic relations have fractured between the world’s two largest economies. The fissures started to show during a trade war
that has been rumbling on for almost two years and have only widened amid accusations about the handling of the Covid-19 disease outbreak
, and the treatment of ethnic minority groups in China
.
Hong Kong is the latest flashpoint after Beijing drew up a national security law that Washington says tramples on the city’s mini-constitution. The US threatened retaliation over the move.
The US bill, which will be introduced to both the Senate and House of Representatives, also targets China’s efforts to recruit overseas specialists in certain fields. One example is the Thousand Talents Programme, a state-run initiative launched in 2008 to recruit leading international experts in scientific research, entrepreneurship and innovation.
Members of the US scientific community have resisted what they view as actions unfairly targeting foreign-born colleagues, specifically those from China. They have also raised concerns that such campaigns will discourage talented individuals from studying at US institutions.
“While we must be vigilant to safeguard research, we must also ensure that the US remains a desirable and welcoming destination for researchers from around the world,” the members of 60 groups
, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Federation of American Scientists, said in a letter to science policy officials last year.
No timeline has yet been set for deliberation of the proposed legislation, but US officials have long raised concerns that Beijing is attempting to steal intellectual property via researchers and funding programmes. US law enforcement and educational agencies have raised red flags about undisclosed ties between federally funded researchers and foreign governments. A crackdown has included indictments and dismissals.
In January, Charles Lieber
, 60, chairman of the chemistry and chemical biology department at Harvard University, was arrested and charged for lying about his involvement in the Thousand Talents Programme.
The bill proposes that all participants in China’s foreign talent recruitment programmes register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It would also prohibit Chinese nationals and participants in such China-sponsored programmes from receiving federal grants or working on federally funded research and development in STEM fields.
Universities, laboratories and research institutes receiving federal funding would need to attest that they were not knowingly employing participants in China’s foreign talent recruitment programmes. The US secretary of state would be obliged to develop and publish a list of such programmes, according to a summary of the bill released on Wednesday.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3086543/us-china-big-chill-may-freeze-out-chinese-students-american
better pass this….overdue
P-8 Poseiden crews update-out of NAS Jax
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