Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes (yahoo.com) 41
Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation. From a report: Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its inception in 2022 and attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists around the world, including those at top US universities that have banned their researchers from working with the company, according to documents and people familiar with the matter.
The competition is administered by the Optica Foundation, an arm of the nonprofit professional society Optica, whose members' research on light underpins technologies such as communications, biomedical diagnostics and lasers. The foundation "shall not be required to designate Huawei as the funding source or program sponsor" of the competition and "the existence and content of this Agreement and the relationship between the Parties shall also be considered Confidential Information," says a nonpublic document reviewed by Bloomberg. The findings reveal one strategy Shenzhen, China-based Huawei is using to remain at the forefront of funding international research despite a web of US restrictions imposed over the past several years in response to concerns that its technology could be used by Beijing as a spy tool.
The competition is administered by the Optica Foundation, an arm of the nonprofit professional society Optica, whose members' research on light underpins technologies such as communications, biomedical diagnostics and lasers. The foundation "shall not be required to designate Huawei as the funding source or program sponsor" of the competition and "the existence and content of this Agreement and the relationship between the Parties shall also be considered Confidential Information," says a nonpublic document reviewed by Bloomberg. The findings reveal one strategy Shenzhen, China-based Huawei is using to remain at the forefront of funding international research despite a web of US restrictions imposed over the past several years in response to concerns that its technology could be used by Beijing as a spy tool.
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UGH...gotta start proofreading better.
LATHER, Rinse, Repeat...
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Re: Like cockroaches... (Score:2)
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Protecting yourself from an antagonistic government like the CCP is not in the least bit racist.
It's called self preservation and national security.
I'll be happy to listen to your side when China opens up to the US govt and businesses in like manner as they try to get over here.
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Or you could try not posting your racist anti china posts.
Being anti-Chinese government and anti-people of Chinese ethnicity are two entirely different things. For example, there are many anti-China government people in Taiwan, but these people are obviously not anti-people of Chinese ethnicity.
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Re: Maybe (Score:4, Insightful)
We worked "with" them for decades, which turned out to be them taking advantage of us.
It's time to write a new story, and not fiction like yours.
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To be fair, the USG thought that hegemony and hence its global dominance in trade depended on those wars. They were wrong - hegemony requires you to be a power-in-being. Dissipating itself on fighting these battles was the direct cause of the current situation. Some in the US were notable in pointing this out - I seem to remember Kissinger making some salient points about this, but they weren't popular at the time and here we are.
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For good reason. Being a conqueror doesn't have a great life expectancy, even if you are good at it. Look at the 'great captains' - none of them lived to a ripe old age. The actual people responsible for forging great empires are rather boring administrators, really.
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More accurately, we thought we could exploit them like we always do, but it turned out they were not going to fall into the debt traps and the sell-us-your-assets traps. Now we are upset that they are out competing us, especially since they don't conform to our economic model, which we were assured was the best and only way that could work.
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China shined on WTO rules in nationalistically anticompetitive ways from day one. If you won't stand for it from Apple, why would you support it from China?
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You mean like on gain of function research?
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Hi again, AmiMoJo.
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Maybe if Americans worked with the Chinese instead of against them you would know what they are up to and the world would be a slightly better place,
In order for Western Capitalism to remain competitive and relevant they need access to cheap Chinese labour, which increases overall profit, while simultaneously preventing that same cheap Chinese labour from selling directly to The West. Western governments are lobbied for favourable protectionist legislation by using the "they're spying on us" bogeyman, while simultaneously hand waving away any criticism of how The West is doing the same to China in return.
In the end it all boils down to money but, more
I don't get it (Score:2)
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To use this as a front to get spies into our universities and steal our tech secrets.
It's what they do and have done for ages....
They advance by stealing...plain and simple.
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Careful, if you can't spell then your salary may be reduced below fifty cents.
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They stole 5g from America.
They stole 5G from Canada.
You brainded idiots.
ded? Only twenty-five cents for you!
That is so sad American Universities (Score:4, Interesting)
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Can't seem to get sufficient funding from sources in America.
But this is a source in America....
Huawei gives money to a non-profit research foundation in America, and then that American foundation gives the freshly-laundered money to researchers to fund their work.
The problem comes when the research results are shared back to Huawei by the foundation. Depending on the type of research, this could be a serious federal crime.
Otherwise, it is legal.
TLDR: Money in = Good. Research out = Bad.
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Surely trying to increase America's competitiveness is has been on the agenda for the last 200 years? With occasional flavor changes like backstabbing King George, cozying up to England, backstabbing Japan, cozying up to Japan, allying with the USSR, backstabbing the USSR, cozying up to Russia, backstabbing Russia, cozying up to China, backstabbing China.
Is the research available to all countries (Score:2)
on equal footing? If yes, then I do not see any harm on Huawei funding it.
If it is available with priviledges for china, and strings attached to everyone else, then there is a problem.