Rick Scott Targets Enemy Funding of U.S. Universities
The “Defending American Research Act” would penalize universities that take money from foreign adversaries
Conservative Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) just introduced legislation to finally get the Chinese Communist Party off America’s college campuses.
For years, Beijing has flooded our universities with cash. They bought access and influence at some of our top research labs while Deep State bureaucrats looked the other way. Even worse, they recruited top scientists and students to help steal cutting-edge technology.
Just last month, a Harvard chemist defected to China after being convicted for working with the CCP. Now he’s in Beijing, running a new lab that connects human brains to computers.
China’s “research grants” are nothing more than intelligence operations — and need to be shut down.
Sen. Scott has the bill to do the job. The “Defending American Research Act” would disqualify from federal research funding any university that takes money from China, North Korea, Iran, Qatar, or other foreign adversaries.
This should have been made law years ago.
Foreign money on our campuses poses an urgent security risk amid an AI technology arms race. It’s also a huge source of anti-American propaganda in higher education.
As Senator Scott put it:
“America has enemies, and we need to start acting like it. Countries like Communist China and terror-supporting Qatar should not be able to use America’s colleges and universities as outposts to spy on us, steal sensitive research, and spread anti-American propaganda, but we’ve been letting them do it for years. This legislation is critical to America’s national security and the future of our higher education system, neither of which should be for sale.”
He’s right, and we applaud his leadership on this critical issue.
