The report, compiled by the National Counterintelligence and Security Centre, alongside the Department of Education and different federal our bodies, was printed on-line on Monday, and mentioned: “The Chinese Communist Party and Chinese intelligence services represent the broadest, most active, and persistent espionage threat to the US. It also remains the top threat to US technology competitiveness.”
It cited Beijing’s Thousand Talents Plan to recruit scientific and technological experience from overseas in warning that China was focusing on US specialists in fields akin to synthetic intelligence and machine studying, quantum expertise, semiconductors, optics, hypersonics and power techniques to entry delicate expertise and mental property.
It additionally argued that “foreign adversaries”, together with China, “infiltrate intelligence operatives into universities who then pose as students to collect information on classmates and research”.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which oversees the counter-intelligence centre, mentioned the report was designed to “alert US colleges and universities about increasing foreign threats to their research and to arm them with mitigation strategies for addressing these threats”.