Canadian universities have for years collaborated with top Chinese military scientists on hundreds of research projects, generating knowledge that can help drive China’s defence sector in cutting-edge, high-tech industries.
Canadian universities have for years collaborated with a top Chinese army scientific institution on hundreds of advanced-technology research projects, generating knowledge that can help drive China’s defence sector in cutting-edge, high-tech industries.
NUDT was blacklisted by the United States in 2015 – subject to export restrictions – under former U.S. president Barack Obama’s administration because Washington believes it “is involved, or poses a significant risk of being or becoming involved in activities that are contrary to the national-security or foreign-policy interests of the United States.”President Xi Jinping
But that hasn’t deterred Canadian universities from collaborating with China. Despite the new security rules, none of the Top 10 universities involved in projects with NUDT, the People’s Liberation Army’s main scientific institution, would commit to barring their academics from doing further research with the university.
“On matters of national security, universities look to Canadian authorities for actionable direction, and there is no direction from such authorities to preclude the co-authoring of the research papers you describe,” said Joseph Wong, vice-president, international at the University of Toronto. Dennis Molinaro, a national-security analyst and professor at Ontario Tech University, said “there is a lot of passing the buck” taking place on the subject of university research with China.
CSIS declined to say whether Canadian universities should halt their collaboration with NUDT when asked by The Globe. But the spy agency left no doubt that it opposes such activities. The paper says research funding sources include NSERC, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia.
According to Strider’s research, the University of Waterloo tops the list of such Canadian organizations. From 2017 to 2022, University of Waterloo researchers published 46 papers in collaboration with researchers affiliated with China’s NUDT. Some of that research, published in 2018 and 2020, involved photonics, a key enabling technology for many emerging national-security systems.
Cynthia Lee, spokesperson for McGill, said the university strives to be “as open as possible to collaborations from around the world,” and added that it played a role in advising the government on the new security guidelines for federal funding.
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