FBI director Christopher Wray tells Senate panel that American academe is naïve about the intelligence risks posed by Chinese students and scholars. Some worry his testimony risks tarring a big group

FBI director addresses efforts by China to steal academic research and technology. Higher ed groups say they're taking the issue seriously.

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university. In an...

Asian American advocates were outraged by Chris Wray’s call. ‘We cannot have every Chinese student or scientist assumed guilty until proven innocent,’ one told The Daily Beast.

US authorities worry about the wholesale theft of technology and trade secrets

The Trump administration is considering new background checks and other restrictions on Chinese students in the United States over growing espionage concerns, U.S. officials and congressional sources...

As the United States warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university.

The FBI has been questioning American graduates of a prestigious Chinese master’s-degree program to see if they have been co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.

The Trump administration is sharpening its criticism of Chinese interference in the United States, pointing to Chinese influence in American higher education."Beijing provides generous funding to...

A chorus of concern has emerged in Congress about China’s allegedly pervasive exploitation of the U.S.’s intellectual property and open research environment, with some lawmakers seeking to overhaul

The FBI has been reaching out to universities across the country.

I suspect that most readers will have heard the news that Charles Lieber, nanoscale materials chemist and chair of Harvard's chemistry department, was arrested yesterday by federal agents. He was...

News Analysis The number of foreign students at U.S. colleges hit an all-time high of 1,095,299, with Chinese ...

As the U.S. warned allies around the world that Chinese tech giant Huawei was a security threat, the FBI was making the same point quietly to a Midwestern university.

A renowned UCSD eye doctor who is part of China's Thousand Talents Program under FBI scrutiny has resigned amid inewsource's questions about his foreign government affiliations and businesses.

The University of Hawaii has shuttered its China­-influenced Confucius Institute following new federal restrictions and...

WASHINGTON -- Back in the 1980s, David Szady was among the premier Soviet spy catchers at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, studying

In July, the U.S. Department of Education Notices of Investigation to four U.S. universities seeking information on the “Confucius Institutes” operating on their campus

Sen. Josh Hawley is right: U.S. universities should say no to Chinese Communist Party-backed Confucius Institutes.

The University of New Hampshire is renewing a long-term contract with a China-based group that’s raised concerns among U.S. intelligence agencies.

San Francisco State University was forced to close its 14-year-old Chinese language and cultural program, the Confucius Institute, this spring after receiving an ultimatum from the U.S. Department of...

As suspicion toward China spreads to academia, the FBI has advised at least 10 U.S. universities to monitor academics associated with certain Chinese institutions.

A Senate investigative report revealed that Chinese recruitment programs are stealing U.S. research and agencies have haltingly responded to these threats.

The University of Pittsburgh has suspended a language program sponsored by the Chinese government in the wake of visa issues for 15 Chinese scholars previously scheduled to oversee the program. The...

Confucius Institutes are the Communist Party’s outposts in the West.

The University of Massachusetts Boston was one of seven campuses nationwide targeted by a Chinese government official in a visa fraud scheme aimed at bringing foreign government recruiters to the...

The Education Department has begun a crackdown on colleges and universities that fail to disclose gifts from foreign governments, fearing undue influence.

Congress is beginning to take action against a long-denied threat.

The University of South Carolina has continued to host a Chinese “propaganda” outpost on campus despite concerns from the FBI, education advocacy groups and top lawmakers.

IOWA CITY - Using his status as leader of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee to hold a hearing this week on the threats that 'foreign thieves' pose to American taxpayer-funded research, Iowa Republi...

The head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has warned universities in the United States to think more carefully about the “generational t...

This comes after the Senate accused federal agencies of failing to adequately monitor the exploitation of U.S. science research by the Chinese government.

Higher ed is taking a sober look at the Chinese government presence on campus.

U.S. Intelligence agencies continue to warn of Beijing’s spying activities in the U.S. – including commercial espionage and the stealing of intellectual property. 

Confucius Institutes, which have bought their way into colleges across the United States, are coming under serious scrutiny.

Despite some efforts to downplay the problem, the academic world is not a “safe space,” insulated from international rivalries.

A Chinese government official and his allies allegedly tried to convince at least seven U.S. universities to sponsor visas for purported Chinese research scholars who in reality aimed to recruit...

Statement by Assistant Director Bill Priestap, Counterintelligence Division, before the Senate Judiciary Committee

While our nation is distracted with a Senate impeachment trial, our main geo-political rival is busy not just harvesting organs on its own shores but harvesting American technology and national...

"Not an accident"