Aformer Georgetown University researcher is claiming that the school has so far refrained from supporting her against legal threats brought by a Chinese military-linked biotech firm. She says the school’s handling of the situation reveals China’s “elite capture” of American institutions.
Anna Puglisi, a former counterintelligence official, said at a congressional hearing on Thursday that she received letters this summer from biotech company BGI, and an entity linked to it, MGI, threatening legal action. That followed her publication of a report in May focused on the Chinese government’s support of BGI — which the U.S. government describes as a “Chinese military company” — in her previous job at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET). Neither entity has brought a lawsuit yet, though the letters could precede one. Georgetown said that it will defend her with its legal counsel if the companies sue.
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