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More than 500 federally funded scientists are under investigation for being compromised (làm hại, làm tổn thương) by China and other foreign powers, the National Institutes of Health revealed Thursday.

The federal health officials told a Senate committee that they are fighting to keep up with large-scale Chinese efforts to corrupt American researchers and steal intellectual property (ăn cắp sở hữu trí tuệ) that scientists hope will lead to biomedical advances (tiến bộ trong y sinh).

...China has targeted research throughout the economy from corn growers to cancer researchers.

...researcher Song Guo Zheng, who is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last year to lying on applications for NIH grants totaling $4.1 million that he admitted were used to enhance Chinese expertise in rheumatology (khoa thấp khớp) and immunology (miễn dịch học).

U.S. officials also have sounded the alarm that China has tried to hack COVID-19 research and is intent on pilfering U.S. science and technology because it believes American innovation will enable it to overtake the U.S. as a global superpower.

The United States’ competition with China escalated sharply during the Trump administration, culminating in the administration’s July 2020 decision to order the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston (đóng cửa lãnh sự quán china ở houston, ổ gián điệp). Trump administration officials accused the consulate of being crucial to a major Chinese spying operation that focused on private American companies fighting the coronavirus...

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