Espionage-linked Chinese company embedded in top US research labs
A corporation with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party and a history of industrial espionage produces hardware used for sensitive medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Washington Examiner review has found.
United Imaging is a multinational medical technology company based in Shanghai that has conducted research alongside the Chinese military and cooperates with the state-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition to its government links, three United Imaging employees were charged in 2013 with transferring “nonpublic information” generated at an NIH-funded lab to both the company and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in exchange for payments.
Despite United Imaging’s history and despite evidence that some Chinese hardware has backdoors allowing data to be remotely downloaded, public records show that the company’s hardware is present at NIH-funded labs and major research installations across the country.
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