An update on espionage in the university

0:01 So the Swiss now are also protecting themselves against espionage and the university systems. They've been screening out applications from countries such as Russia, China, Iran, and Afghanistan for a year now, and eighty applications have been rejected. They assess for criteria such as origin, previous education, and source of funding.

0:21 They intended degree that they're getting universities of long service, global hubs of open research, collaboration and innovation. However, their attractive targets beforeign espionage. The most common vectors include visiting scholars, joint research programs, and grad students affiliated with foreign military or intelligence institutions. China's Thousand Talents programs and similar initiatives have been repeatedly cited by the FBI as recruitment pipelines that incentivize participants to transfer proper proprietary research without disclosure.

0:54 In eighteen. Between twenty eighteen and twenty four, the DOJ prosecuted multiple cases of involving professors and researchers who conceal ties to Chinese entities while working on US government projects such as hypersonic semiconductors and biotech. These non state actors complicate the landscape, as the universities frequently partner with private firms and commercially valuable research, making them targets for industrial theft.

1:23 Open campuses and minimal security protocols for many labs, and reliance on international funding exacerbate the vulnerabilities. Some of the countermeasures that they're doing now is VISA screening, mandatory disclosure of foreign affiliations, restricted access to certain sensitive projects, and FBI academic research projects. So again, big problem, and it's not a relic of an old the Coal War. It's still evolving and we're going to see what what has Rubio done about it right now, because he's done some stuff here to change. So he was putting some kind of moratorium, I believe on Chinese students. What he did was a he had he created the foreign well. He introduced a Foreign Influenced Transparracy Act, legislation that mandates entities

2:18 like the CCP China register on the Foreign Agents Registration Act. It also amends the Higher Education Act to require universities to disclose foreign donations and contracts or in kind gifts succeeding fifty thousand dollars a year in twenty twenty five, Rubio announced an aggressive politic city to revoke visas for students for Chinese students affiliated with the CCP or studying in sensitive areas like AI and robotics. The initiative enhances sers scrutiny of all future applicants from China and Hong Kong, aiming to curb electoral intellectual property