
The Chinese company is also building manufacturing plants in Massachusetts and Ireland. Officials were particularly critical of China's WuXi Biologics, which purchased Bayer's manufacturing plant in Germany, Pfizer's manufacturing plant in China and CMAB Biopharma Group in China. (The university removed him from its Board of Trustees after the sanctions announcement.) Quantum computing Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Viktor Vekselberg, who headed the Skolkovo Foundation, in 2018. MIT said the partnership would focus on "strengthening research collaborations between individual faculty members at the two institutions."Īmerican officials pointed out that the U.S. Officials also expressed concern about Russia, citing MIT's 2019 announcement that it would extend its partnership with Russia's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and the Skolkovo Foundation. indictment of two Chinese hackers working with the Chinese Ministry of State Security for their part in a 10-year hacking campaign against a wide range of Western targets, including a UK-based AI firm. as the world's leader in AI in the next decade if current trends do not change." Officials cited the 2020 U.S. The report found that China "possesses the might, talent and ambition to potentially surpass the U.S. "It was because it was part of this larger plan." "It wasn't just because it was a good investment," he said. Any particular deal could be attractive on the individual merits, but American business leaders should recognize that these offers aren't coming on the merits.

"People are having trouble understanding the bigger picture here and the ways that legal and illegal come together," Orlando said. Their goal is to explain to companies and universities that they are on the receiving end of a sophisticated, and often devious, effort by foreign governments to make off with valuable technology - and that some transactions that appear to be simple business deals are more dangerous to the country. "Because of our short sightedness, we may wake up one day and discover that we have become health care crack addicts and China has become our pusher." He said vulnerability is particularly acute in health technology.

"Its not just the loss of intellectual property, but the loss of a complete business model" said Edward You, NCSC's national counterintelligence officer for Emerging and Disruptive Technologies. firms will not only lose their edge, but will be entirely pushed out of the technology sectors crucial to the 21st century.
