U.S. Colleges Face China-Ties Crackdown Gordon Chang: “There were more than 140 cases of Harvard researchers doing research with Chinese military-linked institutions.” “It’s unpatriotic, it is barely legal, and maybe in some cases it wasn’t legal at all.”
🚨 U.S. Colleges Face China-Ties Crackdown
Gordon Chang: “There were more than 140 cases of Harvard researchers doing research with Chinese military-linked institutions.”
“It’s unpatriotic, it is barely legal, and maybe in some cases it wasn’t legal at all.” pic.twitter.com/IyWLxYpwRt
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) August 20, 2026
Laura Ingraham dropped a bombshell clip (above) this week that should make every American taxpayer’s blood boil. China expert Gordon Chang laid it out plain: there were more than 140 cases of Harvard researchers collaborating with Chinese military-linked institutions. “It’s unpatriotic, it is barely legal, and maybe in some cases it wasn’t legal at all.”
He’s not exaggerating. A brand-new House investigation confirms the rot runs deep. The Democrats and their scams never end. They have been in bed with China for decades, and even now China is supporting Democrat candidates all over America.
On August 13, 2026, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the Education and Workforce Committee released Compromised Independence: CCP Influence at Harvard University. The 53-page report documents how America’s most prestigious university has systematically prioritized lucrative ties to Beijing over U.S. national security.
More Than 140 Collaborations With China’s Military Universities
Harvard-affiliated researchers co-authored more than 140 papers with scientists from China’s “Seven Sons of National Defense”—a group of universities that sit at the heart of the People’s Liberation Army’s research and industrial base. These are not neutral academic partners. They report into China’s defense apparatus and pour the majority of their research budgets into military applications.
Specific examples jump off the page:
- A 2023 paper on “Bioinspired Soft Robots for Deep-Sea Exploration,” co-authored with Beihang University researchers. Beihang is a Seven Sons school that spends roughly 60% of its research budget on defense. The technology has clear dual-use applications, including underwater sensing relevant to submarine detection.
- A 2023 Nature Electronics paper on electrically tunable magnetic materials co-authored with a researcher from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT)—an entity on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List since 2015 for its role in supercomputing and nuclear-related work. The Harvard researcher acknowledged U.S. Army Research Office funding.
- Battery technology research with Nanjing University of Science and Technology (another Seven Sons institution) that carried both U.S. Department of Energy support and Chinese National Key R&D Program funding.
These are not obscure side projects. They involve advanced materials, robotics, photonics, and energy storage—the exact dual-use technologies the Chinese Communist Party needs to close the military gap with the United States.
The Lieber Case: Poster Child for Academic Betrayal
No single story captures the problem better than Charles Lieber, former chair of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department.
Between 2008 and 2019, Lieber’s lab received more than $15 million in U.S. taxpayer grants from the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health. At the same time, he secretly signed on as a “Strategic Scientist” with Wuhan University of Technology and joined China’s Thousand Talents Program. The Chinese paid him up to $50,000 per month, covered living expenses, and gave him more than $1.5 million to set up a joint nano lab that carried the Harvard name.
Lieber lied about it to federal investigators and to Harvard. A jury convicted him. After a wrist-slap sentence, he moved to China full-time. By 2025–2026 he was running brain-computer interface research at a state-funded Chinese institute—technology the PLA has openly studied for “super soldier” applications that boost mental agility and situational awareness on the battlefield.
American taxpayers funded the foundational research. China got the scientist, the lab, and the military edge.
The Money Trail
Harvard has taken more than $600 million from Chinese sources—the largest haul of any American university, according to Department of Education Section 117 data. The report further alleges the university created a nonprofit entity, Harvard Global, structured in a way that could help route certain foreign awards around full federal disclosure requirements.
This is the same university that lectures the rest of the country about ethics, equity, and “global citizenship” while cashing checks from a regime that runs concentration camps, steals intellectual property on an industrial scale, and builds a military explicitly designed to challenge American power in the Pacific.
This Is Not an Isolated Problem—It’s a System
The pattern is clear across elite campuses: federal research grants flow in, joint publications and talent recruitment programs flow out to China, and dual-use breakthroughs end up advancing Beijing’s Military-Civil Fusion strategy. The Chinese government does not hide its intent. Talent programs like Thousand Talents exist precisely to extract knowledge developed in open American labs and transfer it home.
Gordon Chang is right. Much of this activity sits in a gray zone of “collaboration” that American universities have refused to police seriously. The result is that hard-earned American innovation—paid for by the American people—gets duplicated, refined, and weaponized by our chief geopolitical adversary.
House Republicans are pushing legislation such as the DETERRENT Act and the SIRA Act to force real transparency, lower disclosure thresholds for foreign money, and restrict collaborations with military-linked Chinese entities. Those measures are long overdue.
American universities should never be allowed to treat U.S. national security as an afterthought while they chase Chinese cash and prestige. Harvard’s record shows what happens when they do. The research is American. The funding is American. The benefits are increasingly Chinese.
That is not academic freedom. That is a national security failure dressed up in Ivy League robes.
—The Whatfinger News Team: Ben and Lisa
Resources
- Laura Ingraham post featuring Gordon Chang on Harvard-China research ties
- Compromised Independence: CCP Influence at Harvard University – House Select Committee on the CCP & Education and Workforce Committee report
- Select Committee Investigation: Exposing CCP Influence at Harvard University – official press release
- House Republicans Take Aim at Harvard Over Ties to China in New Report – The Harvard Crimson
- Former top Harvard scientist defects to China to help build army of AI super soldiers – New York Post
- Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab in China – Reuters / U.S. News
- Harvard professor charged with hiding China ties, payments – Associated Press
- Moolenaar, Foxx Uncover that American University Research Aids Chinese Military – Select Committee on the CCP
- FBI: The Importance of Partnerships in Responding to the Chinese Economic Espionage Threat to Academia
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