by Steven Richards at Just the News
Chinese infiltration of U.S. universities has been a focus of the Trump administration, producing charges in cases linked to another university in Michigan.
A student-run newspaper at Stanford University has again reported on Chinese influence at the school, this time unveiling research ties between a leading American scientist and an entity affiliated with China’s nuclear program.
According to the investigation, Wendy Mao, who is Stanford’s Earth Sciences Chair and Principal Investigator at Stanford’s Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences at SLAC, has collaborated for at least two decades with the Center for High Pressure Science and Technology (HPSTAR), which was added to the U.S. Commerce Department’s entities list in 2020 and is considered a subsidiary of the “technology complex” leading China’s nuclear weapons program.
Additionally, some collaborative publications appear to have been funded in part by at least seven U.S. government agencies.
The findings mark the second major exposé by the student-run The Stanford Review in its investigative series into Chinese Communist Party influence at the university. In May, the paper reported on purported efforts by the Chinese to acquire sensitive information on the school’s research efforts.
Though the research papers authored by Mao and HPSTAR do not deal directly with nuclear weapons research, the kinds of experimental techniques and theoretical knowledge required in their geological and materials research could be used to study such materials relevant to nuclear weapons, a respected materials scientist and physicist told The Stanford Review.
Indeed, China has…
Continue Reading