New Chinese Institute Lures Top U.s., Western Scientists To Obtain Advanced American Technology

The Washington Times has conducted an investigation into a new institute run by former scientists at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory. The Eastern Institute of Advanced Study (EIAS) is backed financially and politically by the regional Chinese Communist Party in Ningbo, China, and is part of the controversial Thousand Talents recruitment program. The program is paying American scientists million-dollar salaries and providing other lucrative benefits for their knowledge of cutting-edge technology China has been unable to generate on its own. The Justice Department’s China initiative has prosecuted more than 20 U.S. figures with ties to U.S. universities for their involvement in the program, but the Biden Administration has halted the legal initiative over concerns that the prosecutions appeared racially motivated.