Overview

• The Select Committee released a report examining six universities and concluded the administration failed to enforce Executive Order 10043 restricting Chinese nationals engaged in military-linked research.
• Investigators said U.S. campuses admit thousands of students with academic ties to China’s military and defense research base, including graduates of the PRC’s “Seven Sons” institutions.
• Committee disclosures included school-level snapshots such as more than 400 Chinese nationals engaged in federally funded projects at one campus and roughly half of Chinese Ph.D. candidates on federal grants at another.
• The report recommends tighter visa screening, explicit eligibility limits, mandatory reporting of affiliations and funding, and additional restrictions for PRC nationals accessing sensitive research.
• Universities have begun recalibrating ties, with UIUC terminating dozens of China partnerships and joint programs and Purdue adopting new research-security measures, while a prior committee analysis cited $2.5 billion spent on 1,400 DoD-funded papers with Chinese co-authors.