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Lawmaker calls for US research funding curbs on more Chinese schools · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: A high-ranking congressional lawmaker leading a prominent select committee on
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  Speaker 1: national security issues has formally petitioned defense officials to significantly
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  Speaker 1: expand federal research funding restrictions against dozens of foreign academic
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  Speaker 1: institutions and technology laboratories. In an official communication delivered to
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  Speaker 1: defense leadership, the legislative chairman requested that over 50 foreign
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  Speaker 1: universities and more than 60 specialized technology laboratories be added
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  Speaker 1: to an official restricted entity directory. Federal guidelines strictly prohibit
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  Speaker 1: defense agencies from granting research funding to domestic entities or
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  Speaker 1: university programs that maintain active collaborative partnerships with institutions named
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  Speaker 1: on the restricted registry, categorizing such inter-institutional scientific ventures as
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  Speaker 1: high-level compliance risks. The targeted foreign academic institutions and technology
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  Speaker 1: centers focus heavily on sensitive emerging sectors including advanced semiconductor architecture,
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  Speaker 1: artificial intelligence frameworks, and quantum computing infrastructure. Legislative investigators emphasize
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  Speaker 1: that permitting federal research funds to flow toward institutions with
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  Speaker 1: close ties to foreign state intelligence networks creates unacceptable vulnerabilities
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  Speaker 1: regarding intellectual property transfer and strategic technological advantages. Among the
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  Speaker 1: prominent academic institutions designated for inclusion is a premier foreign
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  Speaker 1: research university whose commercial advisory boards historically feature executive leaders
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  Speaker 1: from major American technology firms, highlighting the deep commercial and
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  Speaker 1: academic linkages currently facing intense legislative scrutiny. The formal push
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  Speaker 1: to broaden federal funding prohibitions reflects an accelerating political campaign
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  Speaker 1: in Washington, to restrict scientific and technological collaboration between domestic
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  Speaker 1: research universities and overseas institutions. Defense Department officials previously initiated
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  Speaker 1: targeted compliance reviews into dozens of prominent domestic universities to
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  Speaker 1: determine whether active academic partnerships violated existing federal funding restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: While national security policymakers maintain that strict regulatory guardrails are
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  Speaker 1: necessary to protect critical technological assets, Higher education leaders and
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  Speaker 1: academic researchers warn that broad prohibitions risk disrupting essential global
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  Speaker 1: scientific cooperation, creating administrative friction, and triggering widespread institutional decoupling
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  Speaker 1: across global research networks.