Rep. Bob Onder on HR 1048: Stopping CCP Espionage on US College Campuses

Concerns Over CCP Influence on US Campuses

• 🏛️ Representative Bob Onder strongly supports HR 1048, the DETERRENT Act, aimed at ending Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and espionage on American college campuses.
• 💡 A report highlighted a partnership between UC Berkeley and China's Shinga University, creating an institute that collaborated with a Chinese research lab on advanced chip technology.
• ⚠️ The bill questions why the CCP should have access to American research on sensitive technology with military applications.

Hypersonic Weapons Research and IP Infringement

• 🚀 The bill addresses concerns that US research and development in hypersonic weapons may be directly benefiting the CCP.
• 🔬 Alfred University received Department of Defense grants for hypersonic weapons research, which then partnered with China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, a university also conducting similar weapons research for the CCP.
• ⚖️ The FBI identifies the CCP as the world's principal infringer of intellectual property.
• 🔒 The DETERRENT Act seeks to prevent the CCP, identified as the number one threat to global security, from exploiting American innovation and the openness of university campuses.