Official data shows the Pentagon, NASA, and other key US government agencies have funded China-based researchers in these sensitive fields for 14 years. And the US government has already granted over a thousand US patents to them.
That's according to the US patent office's data reviewed by the Reuters. These one-thousand-and-twenty US granted patents have one thing in common -- at least one of their inventors is based in China. And they all received US government's money to conduct their research.