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Senate Report: U.S. Taxpayers Have Unwittingly Funded China’s Economy And Military For Decades

Ashe Schow
Senate Report: U.S. Taxpayers Have Unwittingly Funded China’s Economy And Military For Decades
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U.S. Senate investigators released a report Monday showing that federal agencies were too slow to respond when China recruited U.S. researchers to provide the communist nation with America’s intellectual property.

Reuters reported that the report found that American taxpayers had been unwittingly funding the transfer of intellectual property, which helped China’s economy and military. More from Reuters:

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