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Rep. Good Introduces the No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act

February 11, 2021

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Bob Good (Va-05) introduced the No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act, which would require the Attorney General to provide a report to Congress within one year of enactment on the extent to which Communist China has benefited from taxpayer funded research.

“Americans’ hard-earned money should not be funding the Chinese Communist Party,” said Congressman Bob Good. “It is in our national interest to ensure that our federally funded research is not being used as a vehicle to fund China’s communist propaganda, or to further strengthen an adversarial nation.”

This report would include:

  • A list of United States Government-funded entities, such as research institutions, laboratories, and institutions of higher education, which have hired Chinese nationals or allowed Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an estimate in the number of nationals hired or involved in research projects.

No Taxpayer Funding for the Chinese Communist Party Act bill text HERE

Background:

In 2008, the Senate Homeland Security Committee stated there were more than 35,000 foreign nationals, including 10,000 from China, conducting research in the Department of Energy’s National Labs. 

According to the Department of Education in 2019, “one university received research funding from a Chinese multinational conglomerate to develop new algorithms and advance biometric security techniques for crowd surveillance capabilities,” while another “had multiple contracts with the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.”  SOURCE

A 2019 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee report found that, “…American taxpayer funded research has contributed to China’s global rise over the last 20 years.” SOURCE

Monitoring the Chinese Communist Party on American Campuses:

This week the Biden Administration dropped rules that the Trump administration proposed, which required American schools to disclose their agreements with Confucius Institutes — a Chinese language program accused by U.S. officials of spreading communist propaganda fed from Beijing. INFO

In 2019 the Federal Bureau of Investigation found that China’s government has used some students and professors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields as non-traditional collectors of intellectualproperty. SOURCE

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