Of course, China is in our nuclear business, right? If you’ll recall from previous Drill Down reports, China’s espionage involves stealing our data, intellectual properties, and even our seeds right out of the ground for agricultural advantages.
Don’t take our word for it —here’s FBI Director Christopher Wray…
“I’ll start with what this danger looks like,” Wray said. “The Chinese government is set on stealing your technology—whatever it is that makes your industry tick—and using it to undercut your business and dominate your market.”
“We’ve even caught people affiliated with Chinese companies out in the U.S. heartland, sneaking into fields to dig up proprietary, genetically modified seeds, which would have cost them nearly a decade and billions in research to develop themselves,” he adds.
And don’t forget China’s land grabs that are coincidentally near U.S. military bases —Including one location that’s 20 minutes away from Grand Forks Air Force Base. Air Force Major Jeremy Fox wrote a memo back in April after the purchase.
“Some of the most sensitive elements of Grand Forks exist with the digital uplinks and downlinks inherent with unmanned air systems and their interaction with space-based assets,” Fox wrote, adding such interceptions would “present a costly national security risk causing grave damage to United States’ strategic advantages.”
So here at The Drill Down, we’re not exactly shocked to hear about Rep. Mike Waltz’s (R-FL) letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, and the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Arati Prabhakar citing 162 scientists formerly employed at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had returned to China to support the CCP in various domestic and military research and development programs.
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a U.S. weapons and nuclear research site.
“The Chinese Communist Party has been stealing our research and technology for decades through its foreign talents programs and it’s critical to our national security that we put an immediate stop to their espionage efforts,” said Rep. Waltz. “Republicans on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee specifically crafted policies to prohibit China’s recruitment programs and the Biden Administration must be transparent in its implementation of these policies.”
Waltz told the Washington Examiner, “The Chinese Communist Party, particularly under Xi Jinping, explicitly aims to become the dominant world superpower in the next decade, and they aim to do it through technology.” He said the Chinese government is “rapidly passing us in those areas because they are stealing their way to the top — and a key avenue for which they are stealing their way to the top is through our research labs.”
Can we count on “China Joe” to implement anti-CCP policies that will protect American interests —including R&D that keeps us ahead of our enemies on the world stage?
Consider us…skeptical.
