6-25-19 World Bank officials have issued a loan to China for the very region where Communist authorities have established mass detention camps targeting Uighur Muslims, drawing rebukes from U.S. lawmakers and analysts. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/lawmakers-worry-world-bank-is-funding-chinas-uighur-muslim-re-education-camps
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Analysts said to expect plenty more cases in the coming years as China’s government tries to place more researchers in U.S. facilities as part of a broader plan to siphon American know-how and technology back home. Nicholas Eftimiades, whose 34-year government career includes stints at the CIA and Defense and State departments, estimates that 300,000 Chinese researchers are in the United States. If even 1% of them are involved in grant fraud, then that would add up to 3,000 cases for the FBI to investigate, he said. “This is pervasive, and you are going to start seeing more of it because entities in the federal government have only recently begun investigating and putting the universities on notice,” he told the Washington Times. Analysts said to expect plenty more cases in the coming years as China’s government tries to place more researchers in U.S. facilities as part of a broader plan to siphon American know-how and technology back home. Mr. Eftimiades said the talent programs and grant fraud are part of what he views as China's "whole of society" approach toward espionage, relying on academics, business executives and others in the U.S. to grab intellectual property. “I think we have been very slow to respond to this threat,” he added. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/aug/25/china-thousand-talents-plan-funnels-us-intellectua/
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