U.S. Universities and China

A report released Monday by Strategy Risks and the Human Rights Foundation alleges that elite U.S. universities including MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton co-authored roughly 3,000 papers since 2020 with Chinese AI labs Zhejiang Lab and SAIRI, which are tied to state surveillance contractor CETC. The study argues such collaborations advanced technologies like multi-object tracking and gait recognition that support Beijing’s repression of Uyghur Muslims, noting Chinese laws compel research entities to assist state security services and warning U.S.-funded work may be absorbed into systems of oppression.