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A Chinese biotech company under fire from lawmakers over its ties to China’s military and multiple other firms linked to the Chinese government have made dozens of payments to government scientists, records show.
WuXi AppTec, which think tanks and the press have reported has close ties with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), made dozens of payments to National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists for intellectual property created in taxpayer-funded labs since 2012, according to records obtained by Open The Books via Freedom of Information Act request. At least 39 Chinese companies have paid royalties to NIH scientists for intellectual property licenses, among them subsidiaries of the state-owned pharmaceutical company Sinopharm.
Chinese firms largely paid to license scientific innovations with pharmaceutical applications produced in publicly-funded labs, with both the NIH and the scientists who worked on them taking home a cut of the proceeds.
WuXi AppTec and other Chinese corporations funding the NIH is a “major conflict of interests,” national security expert Brandon Weichert told the DCNF.
“Money is influence, it’s access,” Weichert said. “In some cases you have instances where these companies would send money and also would then be given favorable access in terms of being able to send their scientists to come work at labs in U.S. government-affiliated research institutions.” […]
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