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Intersting material. More interesting to me is the Army being willing to sponsor research simultaneously with a Chinese institution...

• sybercecurity 5y ago
  Often it is done simply to get reports. The research is likely going to happen anyway in a lot of these areas. Signing a deal to give some money commits the researchers to give reports used to monitor the program.
• ISL 5y ago
  I was surprised to see that, too. It is a rare combination, perhaps a hopeful one if there are problems that funding agencies in both countries see as important-enough to fund alongside their frequently-presumed competitor. However, a closer read suggests that the author did the work at UMass Amherst, then took a professorship in Shenzhen.
  • lovemenot 5y ago
    at Harbin not Shenzhen
    • astkaasa 5y ago
      It's the Shenzhen campus of HIT.
• coolspot 5y ago
  Interestingly, in 2018 Wuhan lab applied for US DARPA grant to produce a bat coronavirus chimera. https://www.newsweek.com/darpa-denies-funding-defuse-wuhan-institute-virology-proposal-leak-drastic-1631512 https://www.newsweek.com/darpa-denies-funding-defuse-wuhan-i... https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-grant-darpa/ https://theintercept.com/2021/09/23/coronavirus-research-gra...