Pentagon Funding ‘Extremely Concerning’ Hypersonic Weapons Program at China-Linked University: Gallagher
The Department of Defense (DOD) is funding hypersonic weapons research at a university with ties to China’s communist regime, according to two letters issued by the congressional committee tasked with overseeing the United States’ competition with China.
The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is concerned that DOD grants to Alfred University in New York may inadvertently fund weapons development in China due to the University’s continued ties with CCP-affiliated institutions.
Such ties, according to copies of the letters obtained by The Epoch Times, include the university’s ongoing research partnership with a China-based university that performs defense research for the CCP, as well as the continued housing of a Confucius Institute on its New York campus….