Sec. 521. Report on China benefitting from United States taxpayer-funded research
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Not later than one year after the date of enactment of the Act, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, and the Director of National Intelligence, shall submit to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives and the Committee on the Judiciary of the Senate a report on the extent to which China has benefitted from United States taxpayer-funded research. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following: The extent to which United States taxpayer-funded research has benefitted China, including a list of United States Government-funded entities, such as research institutions, laboratories, and institutions of higher education, which have hired Chinese nationals or allowed Chinese nationals to conduct research, including an estimate in the number of nationals hired or involved in research projects. A list of United States Government programs, grants, and other forms of research funding in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM)fields that have directly or indirectly cooperated or affiliated with research institutions in China or Chinese Communist Party entities. The extent to which China’s funding of United States taxpayer-funded research institutions has benefitted China. How the Government of China and the Chinese Communist Party have used United States taxpayer-funded research, including as part of China’s efforts to support civil-military fusion and human rights abuses. In this section, the term United States taypayer-funded research means research— funded by a grant from the Federal Government or a State government; or conducted at an institution that receives funding from the Federal Government or a State government.