A group of Republican lawmakers has requested that the Commerce Department disclose government-funded research that led to Chinese patents, aiming to highlight the risks they perceive in renewing a bilateral science and technology agreement.
Six House members, led by Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), said they want to use the data to assess the “national security damage” caused by a landmark science and technology pact that the United States signed with China decades ago, according to a June 13 press release.
The U.S.-China Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement (STA) was signed in January 1979, shortly after the United States established a diplomatic relationship with the Chinese communist regime. The deal was subjected to renewal every five years, with the most recent renewal taking place in 2018….
