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UK Intelligence Agency issues alert - Chinese are paying universities and getting research data in return (www.theguardian.com)
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Chinese companies accused of such heinous crimes as.. LEGALLY PAYING FOR RESEARCH GRANTS biden-horror

The Chinese organisation has given money to 100 or more academics at a string of universities across the UK, in return getting access to the research

Even going so far as to praise people for good work capitaldcolon

The Guardian understands that as well as research money, some British-based academics were given awards, as in honours, by the Chinese.

This is somehow portrayed as "stealing" and because the company has links to the government collaboration heretofore will supposedly be treated as willing espionage.

The evil Chinese are paying our universities to do research and lauding them for their hard work. What evil schemes will they mastermind next???

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[–] 6 points 19 hours ago*

Right? The obvious thing to do to stop this would be to grab some marxist professor and make an extreme example of them in the courts. Doing so would scare the shit out of anyone else and permanently stop it. But they're not doing so, why?

I suspect it's partially because they can't. I also suspect it's partially because they're scared they'll get brain drain to China as people just fucking leave to go do the research they want to do over there instead.

Like why do any of these professors have to stay in the UK to do it? Fine, Chinese intelligence can invite them to do it in China instead. The only thing keeping them in the UK is their social roots. Moving to China isn't defecting, or perhaps UK intelligence do see it that way.

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