{"id":101139,"date":"2020-06-18T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=101139"},"modified":"2020-06-17T09:47:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T13:47:41","slug":"no-surprise-here-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=101139","title":{"rendered":"No Surprise Here"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sorry, couldn’t find a shot of Xi JinPing laughing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Skippy sent this to us a day or so ago.\u00a0\u00a0This is really no surprise at all. The Communist government of China has had its sneaky fingers in every pie on the planet for a while now, under the direction of the Chairman of the Communist Party, Xi JinPing.\u00a0 Stealing another country’s info, science or otherwise, is nothing new. After all, we’ve seen Microsoft and Apple execs practically kiss Xi’s feet by refusing to unlock photos banned by the Chinese communist government from viewing by Chinese citizens. This is why the current crop of young Chinese citizens know nothing about the massacre at Tiananmen Square in 1989. And stealing sensitive information by one government from another is as old as civilization. Skullduggery has been around since before Troy was sacked and destroyed seven times. It is nothing new. But these days, it’s almost more of a business arrangement than real sneakiness.<\/p>\n

The amount these researchers were getting was — well, rather large, and certainly enough to buy a nice house in the suburbs somewhere, with a walled yard and room for a pony.<\/p>\n

The link is here: https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/news\/nih-fires-54-researchers-over-china-links\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

The National Institutes of Health, the foremost research institute under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has investigated 189 researchers for undisclosed ties to foreign countries, 93 percent of which were linked to China.<\/p>\n

The fresh round of terminations resulted from an ongoing investigation at the\u00a0taxpayer-funded<\/a>\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH) into the failure of grant recipients to disclose financial ties to foreign governments.<\/p>\n

The news was\u00a0first broken by Science Mag<\/a>, a project of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world\u2019s oldest and largest general science organization.<\/p>\n

Originating in 2018, the investigation concluded with 54 researchers being \u201cterminated or resigning\u201d for violating NIH rules against simultaneously receiving funds from the U.S. government and foreign entities.<\/p>\n

NIH \u2013 the parent organization for high profile doctors like Anthony Fauci \u2013 employs 6,000 research scientists and has a multi-billion dollar budget.<\/p>\n

The report into foreign links reveals the duplicity occurred via three main tactics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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A common theme, however, among the majority of these now-terminated researchers is the entity funding them: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n

While 399 researchers were suspected of being on a foreign payroll, the NIH ultimately pursued 189 individuals. 93 percent of those involved in a documented foreign relationship listed China as the \u201ccountry of foreign support.\u201d<\/p>\n

One hundred and seventy-five researchers in 27 states and 59 cities were targeted and the average foreign financial investment \u2013 either in the form of direct compensation or research grants \u2013 was $678,000<\/strong>. – article<\/p>\n

Now, read that last bit again: grants averaging $678,000 were given to these people at the direction of Xi JinPing. His philosophy of ripping off what other nations have produced is quite direct:\u00a0\u00a0From the article: The findings are in line with President Xi Jinping\u2019s 2013 decree<\/a>: \u201cOnly by controlling core technology in one\u2019s own hands, can one seize the initiative in competition and development, and absolutely guarantee national economic security, defense security.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well, certainly: if you can’t figure out how someone else does it, then steal it by bribing someone else to hand it over to you.<\/p>\n

Per this article dated June 12, 2020, it started with a group of 51 researchers resigning or being canned following investigations by the NIH:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/06\/fifty-four-scientists-have-lost-their-jobs-result-nih-probe-foreign-ties<\/a><\/p>\n

The investigations started in August 2018 and continued from there:<\/p>\n

In the vast majority of cases, Lauer reported, the person being investigated has been an Asian man in his 50s. Some three-quarters of those under investigation had active NIH grants, and nearly half had at least two grants. The 285 active grants totaled $164 million.<\/p>\n

Lauer also presented data on the nature of the violations that NIH has uncovered. Some 70% (133) of the researchers had failed to disclose to NIH the receipt of a foreign grant, and 54% had failed to disclose participation in a foreign talent program. In contrast, Lauer said, only 9% hid ties to a foreign company, and only 4% had an undisclosed foreign patent. Some 5% of cases involved a violation of NIH\u2019s peer-review system.<\/p>\n

Lauer said the fact that 82% of those being investigated are Asian \u201cis not surprising\u201d because \u201cthat\u2019s who the Chinese target\u201d in their foreign talent recruitment programs.<\/strong> Some 82% are men, and their median age is 56, with the youngest being 48 and the oldest 59. Slightly more than one-half had been an NIH peer reviewer in the past 2 years, and 41% of those under investigation (77 scientists) have been banned from further participation in NIH\u2019s well-regarded system of vetting grant proposals. – article<\/p>\n

As I said, it’s no surprise at all. The amount of money spent to get this info is rather high, but consider the source: the average hourly wage in China’s industrialized economy is $0.25\/hour. That includes people who put together those Apple phones that cost far more than they should, or who make those overpriced bed linens that people in the USA buy to impress their friends. They don’t get the Big Bucks. That goes into building glitzy high-rise buildings in Beijing. And those low-level workers, who work in what can only be termed sweat shops, don’t live in them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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