House CCP Committee Launches Probe of University’s Hypersonic-Research Contract

The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is investigating a New York university’s Pentagon contract for hypersonic-weapons research and its simultaneous partnership with a Chinese military-linked university, National Review has learned.

Yesterday, Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), the panel’s chairman, sent letters about the matter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the president of Alfred University, which holds a $13.5 million Pentagon research contract focused on materials used in hypersonic missiles. That contract, Alfred’s Confucius Institute, and the university’s partnership with the China University of Geosciences are at the center of the controversy, according to the letters, which were reviewed by NR.

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The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is investigating a New York university’s Pentagon contract for hypersonic-weapons research and its simultaneous partnership with a Chinese military-linked university, National Review has learned.

Yesterday, Representative Mike Gallagher (R., Wis.), the panel’s chairman, sent letters about the matter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the president of Alfred University, which holds a $13.5 million Pentagon research contract focused on materials used in hypersonic missiles. That contract, Alfred’s Confucius Institute, and the university’s partnership with the China University of Geosciences are at the center of the controversy, according to the letters, which were reviewed by NR.