China pushes back as US lawmaker seeks blacklist of universities and tech labs
A Republican lawmaker is requesting the Pentagon blacklist 58 Chinese universities and 62 technology labs as national security threats, a move Beijing calls Cold War-style overreach and critics warn could freeze US-China scientific collaboration and ultimately undermine American innovation itself. In a letter to US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth, House Select Committee on China Chairman John…
Republican lawmaker John Moolenaar has requested that the Pentagon add 58 Chinese universities and 62 technology labs to a national security blacklist, alleging ties to China's defense research and industrial base. Beijing dismisses the move as a Cold War-era overreach that could stifle US-China scientific cooperation and damage American innovation.
Tsinghua University, a prestigious institution with ties to Nvidia, Apple, and AMD, is among the universities proposed for inclusion, raising concerns among researchers about the impact on collaborative research. The list was included in a letter sent to US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Chinese embassy spokesperson Liu Chang expressed concern that such actions violate the spirit of scientific cooperation and could harm the interests of all parties involved.
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