Reps. John Moolenaar and Tim Walberg, both R-Mich., are urging Duke University to end its partnership with Wuhan University over national security risks.  

“Wuhan University is not an ordinary academic institution,” they wrote in the letter to Duke President Vincent Price. “It is a direct extension of the Chinese military and intelligence apparatus.”

“As part of these programs, many Duke Kunshan University (DKU) students spend time at Duke University, gaining access to federally funded U.S. research. Given the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) well documented efforts to exploit U.S. academic openness, this partnership creates a direct pipeline between U.S. innovation and China’s military-industrial complex,” the two committee leaders wrote.

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