Gov’t inspection uncovered reported connections to Chinese military, socialist party
The Georgia Institute of Technology is cutting relations with a “blacklisted” Chinese college associated with the country’s defense, according to the U. S. House Education Committee.
The decision, first reported by Reuters last week, follows “scrutiny from Congress over]Georgia Tech’s ] collaboration with entities allegedly linked to China’s military”.
Rep. Virginia Foxx, who chairs the House committee, claimed Georgia Tech may have long before canceled its relationship with Tianjin University.
The Republican senator called Tianjin” a removed organization with acknowledged ties to the Chinese Communist Party and its martial.”
According to Foxx,” The captain of the Titanic did n’t receive a gold star for dispensing life vests, and it should n’t have taken a Congressional investigation to get Georgia Tech to end its partnership with a blacklisted Chinese organization,” Foxx said in a statement last week. We’re thankful that Georgia Tech made the right decision, though, and we hope other institutions follow suit.
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In a letter to Georgia Tech in May, the House of Representatives ‘ select committee on China requested more information about its study on cutting-edge silicon technology conducted at Tianjin University in China.
The Taiwanese school and its members were added in 2020 to the U. S. Commerce Department’s trade restrictions list for actions contrary to U. S. regional security, including business secret fraud and research collaboration to progress China’s defense.
Since Tianjin University was added to the list of entities, Georgia Tech has been evaluating its standing in China, according to director Abbigail Tumpey in an internet.
Tianjin University has had sufficient time to resolve the issue. To date, Tianjin University remains on the Entity List, making Georgia Tech’s participation with Tianjin University, and subsequently Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute ( GTSI), no longer tenable”, Tumpey said.
Georgia Tech, a top-tier U.S. executive class and big recipient of money from the Defense Department, announced in an associated statement that it would stop participating in the Shenzhen institute but that the roughly 300 students who are now enrolled there may have the opportunity to fulfill their degree requirements.
The school and its connections to China have been the subject of years of federal government scrutiny.
In 2021, the Department of Justice indicted a Georgia Tech professor, Gee-Kung Chang, “on federal charges of conspiracy to commit visa fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, and wire fraud”, according to a news release from the agency.
The DOJ also indicted Jianjun Yu, a New Jersey resident, who worked for the Chinese-owned ZTE Corporation, a telecommunications firm, The College Fix reported at the time.
According to the department, Yu and Chang were accused of conspiring to recruit Chinese nationals to the United States while pretending to be conducting research at Georgia Tech under the J-1 visa program.
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