US Scientific Collaboration With China May Support CCP’s Military Programs, Experts Warn

US Scientific Collaboration With China May Support CCP’s Military Programs, Experts Warn
Laboratory technicians wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) work on samples to be tested for COVID-19 at the Fire Eye laboratory, a COVID-19 testing facility, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei Province, on Aug. 4, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images
J.M. Phelps
Freelance reporter
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The United States should cut research collaboration with the Chinese regime so U.S. scientists don’t inadvertently assist Beijing’s biowarfare program, security experts say.

The warning has taken on fresh urgency after recently released documents show that U.S. funding went to coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the facility at the center of the theory that the pandemic originated from a lab leak.
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