Elite US colleges linked to Chinese surveillance labs driving Uyghur ‘genocide,’ study warns

By Fox News · Fox News

FIRST ON FOX: A sweeping new report warns that America’s top universities, including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton, have been quietly partnering with Chinese artificial intelligence labs deeply embedded in Beijing’s surveillance and security state and in some cases co-authoring thousands of papers with entities tied to oppressive efforts against Uyghur Muslims. The report, released by Strategy Risks and the Human Rights Foundation on Monday morning, shows that two major Chinese state-backed labs, Zhejiang Lab and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (SAIRI), have co-authored roughly 3,000 papers with Western researchers since 2020. The labs have direct ties to CETC, the CCP’s defense conglomerate that has sanctioned building the Xinjiang surveillance platform used to target Uyghur Muslims as part of an overall campaign against the group that the Biden and Trump administrations have labeled a "genocide." "With Western support and U.S.government funding, the labs have developed technologies in multi-object tracking, gait recognition, and infrared detection," Strategy Risks said in a press release. "These collaborations facilitated human rights abuses, mass surveillance, and the transfer of sensitive U.S. technology to Chinese companies linked to the Chinese Communist Party." CLICK HERE FOR MORE CAMPUS RADICALS COAST TO COAST The authors stress that the core problem is not covert espionage, but the "shocking normalization" of Western institutions treating Chinese security-linked labs as ordinary research partners, even though Chinese law requires all such entities to support state surveillance and intelligence efforts. Inside China, no research entities are independent of the CCP, the study emphasizes while explaining that China’s National Security, Intelligence, Cybersecurity, and Data Security laws compel all organizations, including supposedly civilian research labs, to share information with state security services, meaning Western resea…