Lawmakers Probe NIH (National Institutes of Health) Over Chinese Espionage Targeting U.S. Medical Research

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Lawmakers Probe NIH Over Chinese Espionage Targeting U.S. Medical Research

GOP members concerned NIH failing to hold spies accountable

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Washington Free Beacon, April 30, 2020:

Two Republican members of Congress have launched an investigation into Chinese espionage operations targeting confidential medical research performed by the National Institutes of Health, according to communications obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.

Reps. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.) are petitioning NIH leaders to disclose how researchers with ties to adversarial regimes such as China continue to participate in confidential research projects and receive American grant money, according to a letter sent Thursday to NIH director Francis Collins. The lawmakers express concerns about a lack of oversight at the agency that they say might have allowed foreign spies to gain access to critical research.

Chinese infiltration of the American medical research community has been a concern for federal authorities, including the FBI, for years. China has been responsible for multiple large-scale hacks on the health care industry, including patient data and medical research into cancer and other diseases.

As the coronavirus has swept the globe and amid revelations of China’s efforts to deceive the world about the virus, lawmakers are beginning to conduct audits on a range of federal agencies to ferret out Communist Party-backed spy operations. These investigations have become especially critical in light of revelations that NIH may have funded the Wuhan-based lab near where the coronavirus emerged.

Banks and Gallagher are asking NIH to provide Congress with information about individuals they may have identified as having undisclosed ties to foreign countries. This includes some 250 NIH researchers identified in recent years as having “suspicious foreign ties” that could trace back to a state-sponsored spy ring.

China has long attempted to steal U.S. government-sponsored research, including from the medical community and military-industrial complex. In some instances, Chinese spies have successfully smuggled proprietary information back to the Chinese government.

NIH has emerged as a particular concern for Banks and Gallagher due to lax policies that rarely punish those discovered to have undisclosed ties to foreign governments.

“This pandemic has raised significant questions about Francis Collins’s leadership at NIH,” said one senior GOP congressional aide, speaking only on background about the ongoing probe into the agency. “We are finding more and more instances of American taxpayer dollars improperly going to foreign entities. Collins is failing to take these instances seriously, only acting when cases come to light. Clearly, we need additional congressional oversight to make sure our tax dollars are being spent wisely over there.”

Michael Lauer, director of NIH’s extramural research program, recently told Science magazine that China has stolen the agency’s research by infiltrating its grant review process and then sharing this information with the communist government. Using this stolen information, China sets up what are known as “shadow labs” to “recreate the stolen NIH-funded research,” according to the lawmakers’ letter.

In August 2018, “nearly two years after being alerted of possible foreign espionage by the FBI, the NIH launched investigations into 250 NIH researchers with suspicious foreign ties,” according to the letter.

 

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felix1999

3 years ago

Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(This has been around since 2010…This is from their website – the Gates Foundation.)
https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2010/12/Global-Health-Leaders-Launch-Decade-of-Vaccines-Collaboration

NEW YORK — The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced a collaboration to increase coordination across the international vaccine community and create a Global Vaccine Action Plan. This plan will build on the successes of current work to achieve key milestones in the discovery, development and delivery of lifesaving vaccines to the most vulnerable populations in the poorest countries over the next decade.

The collaboration follows the January 2010 call by Bill and Melinda Gates for the next ten years to be the Decade of Vaccines. The Global Vaccine Action Plan will enable greater coordination across all stakeholder groups – national governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, the private sector and philanthropic organizations — and will identify critical policy, resource, and other gaps that must be addressed to realize the life-saving potential of vaccines.
(They want their vaccines to be globally MANDATORY.)
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The Leadership Council is comprised of:

Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO;
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, Director of NIAID, part of the National Institutes of Health;
Mr. Anthony Lake, Executive Director for UNICEF;
Ms. Joy Phumaphi, Chair of the International Advisory Committee and Executive Secretary, African Leaders Malaria Alliance
Dr. Tachi Yamada, President of Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation;

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TD

3 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

“Dr. Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO;”
Absolutely insane.

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felix1999

3 years ago

Reply to  TD

WHO is corrupt to the core!
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notme123

3 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

Bill Gates’ father was very involved in Planned Parenthood, and he is proud of that. Georgia Guide Stones.

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Andrew

3 years ago

Defund the NIH. The NIH is too big and too centralized making it an easy target for espionage. Instead spread the research funds among hundred of other stakeholders making it as difficult as herding cats for the Red Chinese to infiltrate

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The Last English Prince

3 years ago

The Chinese are masters of patent and technology fraud. Why spend billions of dollars for your own R&D? Let others do the work. And then steal the intellectual property. Not a conspiracy theorist. This is a well known operating model for the Chinese.

Not sure why we educate beyond the undergraduate level. Not sure why we do not issue a five year moratorium on student visas for Chinese students at our universities. Oh wait! $$$$$ rules. Our universities want the financials at the expense of national security.

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