They’re allowing these ChiComs into the country and access to our technology. Suicide.
DARPA, the Air Force and Army funded infrared detector research involving Jijun Qiu for years. He later returned to China, where his university says he is developing Chinese-controlled technology to overcome foreign “monopoly and blockade.”
The United States spent years funding a Chinese scientist’s work on infrared technology with applications ranging from missile detection to military aircraft.
Then he went back to China.
Today, the Chinese university employing him openly boasts that he is using his expertise to develop domestically controlled infrared systems and help China “break foreign technological monopoly and blockade.”
The case of Jijun Qiu, now a professor and doctoral adviser at Dalian University of Technology, offers an unusually clear example of how American taxpayer-funded research can ultimately strengthen the technological capabilities of the United States’ chief strategic competitor.
According to Qiu’s official Dalian University faculty biography, he worked at the University of Oklahoma from 2011 until 2019 specializing in mid-wave infrared detectors.
During those years, Dalian says Qiu served as a “core technical backbone” on multiple projects supported by the U.S. Department of Defense, including programs funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Army.
The university says those American projects involved more than $2.5 million in research funding.
Qiu subsequently returned to China and joined Dalian University of Technology.
And Dalian is remarkably explicit about what it wants him to accomplish there.
His faculty biography says infrared detectors hold an important position in China’s “national security strategy.” Qiu is now working to create low-cost, large-scale infrared focal-plane imaging technology with Chinese-owned intellectual property and move those systems into commercial production.
The stated objective?
To “break foreign technological monopoly and blockade.”
In other words, the United States helped finance years of Qiu’s work in a sensitive technology. China is now celebrating his expertise as part of its push to stop relying on foreign technology altogether.
The American-funded technology had obvious military applications.
The underlying research was not simply an abstract physics project.
Qiu is named as an inventor on a University of Oklahoma patent covering mid-infrared detector technology developed with support from the U.S. military.
The U.S. patent application specifically identifies funding from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and Army Research Office, noting that the U.S. government retained rights in the invention because of its financial support.
The patent itself explains why these detectors matter.
It describes infrared detection technology as important for military defense involving jet aircraft, rocket-powered aircraft and missiles.
The research sought to improve the sensitivity of infrared detectors while reducing their dependence on expensive cooling equipment, making the systems easier and cheaper to deploy.
Qiu was not merely studying a technology that might someday have a military use.
American military agencies were directly funding work in a field whose own patent documents identified applications involving aircraft and missile defense.
DARPA also funded Qiu’s research.
The funding continued beyond the Air Force and Army.
A 2019 paper led by Qiu on low-cost, uncooled mid-wave infrared photodiodes acknowledged support from a DARPA Small Business Technology Transfer program as well as the Army Research Office.
……..His Chinese biography credits him with developing technologies related to uncooled mid-wave infrared detectors, infrared focal-plane systems and scalable manufacturing.
China did not have to train this researcher from scratch.
Years of that expertise had already been cultivated while he was working inside an American university on research financed by the U.S. military.
The U.S. government and American businesses are selling our security to the CCP.
While U.S. politicians and CEOs are treating Beijing like a business partner, the Chinese have engaged in cyber attacks, spying, economic espionage, and actual threatening of U.S. Naval vessels. Yet these traitors think giving them money, technology, and contributing to the Chinese threat are good ideas.
The military is selling the ChiComs the rope with which they will hang us.
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