(Washington Composite Electric) China Telecom giant Huawei is accused of conducting cutting -edge research on American universities, including Harvard, including Harvard.
Bloomberg Society on Thursday (May 2nd) quoted documents and information and people familiar with the matter reported that Huawei, which has been blacklisted by the United States, is the only funder of a cutting -edge science and technology research competition.Since its founding in 2022, this competition has issued millions of dollars of bonuses, which has attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists from all over the world, including scientists who ban their researchers from cooperating with Huawei.
This competition is managed by the Optica Foundation.A non -public document from Bloomberg shows that the foundation does not need to indicate that Huawei is the source of funds or project sponsor of the competition.Applicants, judges and school officials interviewed by Bloomberg said they said that they did not know about Huawei funding the competition.
Huawei spokesman said that the company and the Optica Foundation founded the competition to support global research and promote academic exchanges; the reason why Huawei was confidential was to avoid this competition as a promotional activity, and it was not malicious.
Optica CEO Rogan said that Huawei's donations have been reviewed by external legal consultants and have been approved by the Foundation's board of directors, which is "completely transparent".
But security experts pointed out that this arrangement lacks transparency and violates the spirit of university and US funding agencies to disclose whether they accept foreign funds.Some of the research on this is likely to have national defense and business significance at the same time.
Murveon, an expert of military defense contractors and military issues, said: "As a research foundation with a good reputation, it is very disgraceful to accept the funds of a Chinese company anonymous. This company has caused many national security of the US government for national security.Worry.
The founder of the "Research Safety and Integrity Center", Stef, said that funding this competition allows Huawei to affect the research projects it wants to see without having to sign a contract directly with academic institutions.Huawei can also recruit talents by sponsoring applicants who are interested and obtain intellectual property rights from their research.
