LJ Eads

Strategic Insights: Multidomain Assessments, Specialized Investigations, and Expert Guidance

[The Stanford Review @StanfordReview]

INVESTIGATION: A whistleblower has leaked Stanford's private foreign-funding records to the Review, revealing millions in funding from Chinese state-linked entities and CCP donors.

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

RELEASE | Chairman @RepMoolenaar and @SenatorBanks introduce the Securing Innovation and Research from Adversaries Act.

This bill aims to block federally funded U.S. research collaborations with foreign adversaries, particularly China, by prohibiting partnerships with entities and individuals on government blacklists. The bill would prevent taxpayer-funded research from supporting China’s military and intelligence-linked technology development while allowing limited, transparent waivers for national security or public interest needs.

https://t.co/tAisScx8yA

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

New @ChinaSelect Report | Research Security for America’s Future in Space: NASA’s Enforcement of the Wolf Amendment

According to our latest report released today, federally funded @NASA research, intended to advance American innovation, has been repeatedly linked to collaborations with institutions embedded in China’s defense and military ecosystem.

In one case alone, researchers produced more than 200 co-authored publications between 2020 and 2025 with Chinese defense-affiliated institutions, while still receiving U.S. federal funding. @ChinaSelect also found multiple active grants, some running through 2026 and 2027, supporting research conducted alongside entities linked to China’s military-industrial base, including those on U.S. restricted lists.

These findings reveal systemic failures in oversight, disclosure, and enforcement of the Wolf Amendment, allowing taxpayer-funded research to flow into China’s military-civil fusion strategy and raising urgent national security concerns that demand immediate action.

https://t.co/N9UCx3cI2p

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

The whole point of counterintelligence is that your sources cannot have ties to the threat you are assessing.

The GAO flagged this exact vulnerability in 2024 and the Pentagon has done nothing. It is a security failure, and it needs to be treated like one.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The COVID cover-up goes all the way to the top. Fauci funded the Wuhan lab. Senior intelligence officials hid classified evidence from the president himself. Scientists were silenced. Millions paid the price.

The DOJ has until May 11th to prosecute Fauci before the statute of limitations runs out.

I am not letting this go. The American people deserve justice.

[Jackie Deal @JacquelineNDeal]

America has no research security. We will lose if this doesn't change.

@ChinaSelect is right to target NSF's SECURE program, which funds a Center to "empower" and Analytics to "mitigate & prevent."

The mission should be: "Prohibit, punish & deter."

🧵on failures... 1/

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Academics, researchers, and university staff | @ChinaSelect wants to hear from you🫵

If you have information regarding:
🇨🇳Undisclosed foreign funding
💱Financial conflicts of interest
📚Research partnerships specifically involving entities tied to China

Submit information confidentially through our whistleblower portal, and put “Research Security” in the subject line of your email.

https://t.co/Y6anYDtYwV

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Chairman @RepMoolenaar sent a letter to the @NSF calling for an immediate investigation into the University of Washington (@UW) and Texas A&M University (@TAMU).

Despite receiving millions from NSF’s SECURE program to safeguard U.S. research, faculty at these universities collaborated with Chinese military-linked entities.

Ensuring the security of taxpayer-funded research is a national priority.
https://t.co/C8q79b596m

[Spotlight on China @spotlightoncn]

The U.S. Intelligence Community has reportedly awarded highly sensitive defense grants to researchers with direct ties to the Chinese government and its military, according to an exclusive new report.

Published by the nonprofit Parallax Advanced Research, the report reveals that since 2017, at least 14 defense projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) have involved investigators linked to Chinese state surveillance, military units, and nuclear development institutions.

These alarming findings raise serious concerns about the inadvertent transfer of cutting-edge U.S. defense technology to a hostile foreign power.

The report warns of a deliberate, coordinated effort by China’s intelligence and military apparatus to extract methodologies, reverse-engineer research outputs, and adapt U.S. technologies for its own mass surveillance and strategic capabilities.

One major case study focuses on IARPA’s $11 million BRIAR Program, which aims to develop whole-body biometric and gait-tracking software to aid U.S. counterterrorism and border security.

The program’s lead investigator, a Michigan State University faculty member, allegedly has a long history of collaborating with Chinese defense-tied institutions, as well as with a U.S.-sanctioned Chinese official.

Another compromised initiative is the BABEL Program, designed to generate rapid speech transcription systems for the U.S. intelligence community.

A 2018 publication utilizing BABEL datasets included a researcher from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Unit 62315, who concurrently filed a related speech recognition patent in China alongside other unit members.

The report also flagged a 2023 publication linked to IARPA’s LogiQ Program, which focuses on advancing quantum computing for U.S. government applications.

This specific publication included a researcher from the China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), the sanctioned entity directly responsible for researching and developing China's nuclear weapons.

Experts warn that this CAEP involvement means highly sensitive U.S. quantum error correction innovations may have been exposed directly to China's nuclear and military ecosystem.

According to Parallax’s director of research intelligence, L.J. Eads, these uncovered collaborations likely only scratch the surface of a much larger and more severe national security crisis within U.S. research funding.
https://t.co/hlfu4o9Z4F

[Daniel Horowitz @RMConservative]

"Since 2017, at least 14 U.S. defense research projects supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) — which is tasked by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) with investing in “high-risk, high-payoff research programs” — have included investigators simultaneously affiliated with Chinese national laboratories, state surveillance entities, military units and nuclear weapons development institutions" https://t.co/Rh2VldTsVy

[State Armor @StateArmor]

New report from @LenczyckiPhilip: U.S. intelligence grants funded research involving individuals tied to Chinese state & military-linked institutions.

Some projects were backed by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s IARPA program.

➡️ https://t.co/FEqFY71TXP

[Dagnum² @Dagnum_PI]

This report repeatedly highlights biometrics, gait, facial, behavioral analytics, AI surveillance.

All areas where “where did this data come from and has it been tampered with?”

Michigan State University IARPA-funded long-range face/body/gait recognition leaking directly to WATRIX (the same gait company powering China’s Skynet).

Ongoing collaborations even after entity-list risks.

Time for America to build what actually matters. Digital Evidence. Data you can trust at the source.

@Conste11ation has the exact infrastructure the report says we desperately need.

[LJ Eads @DataAbyssAI]

Thank you @ChinaSelect for the support and all that you do! @Parallax_ARD @LenczyckiPhilip @IARPAnews @HouseIntel @ODNIgov

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

A new report exposes how China’s defense and surveillance apparatus accessed and exploited sensitive research tied to a biometric identification program funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (@IARPAnews).

China’s military-civil fusion strategy ensures that any technology accessed by civilian researchers can be transferred directly to the military. This means even indirect exposure to IARPA-funded research risks strengthening China’s military, intelligence, and surveillance capabilities.

https://t.co/ARE1oHZkLr

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Foreign funding transparency is a national security imperative. The Chinese Communist Party has poured more than $6 billion into American universities to gain access, shape narratives, and exploit research.

By strengthening Section 117 enforcement and empowering national security experts to review foreign gifts, this new interagency effort (@usedgov & @StateDept) strengthens oversight, increases accountability, and helps defend U.S. campuses from foreign coercion.

https://t.co/EGwkWGuoBm

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

EXCLUSIVE: US Intel Funded Projects Riddled With Chinese Gov't-Linked Researchers: 'Scratches the surface' https://t.co/MbfA3uRCvh

[Byron Wan @Byron_Wan]

🚨 Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around such partnerships have failed.

The study is believed to be the first of its kind to put a dollar figure — $943.5 million — on such collaborations, which critics have cited as examples of the US unwisely aiding its top adversary’s military, and using taxpayer money to do so. The report was published by the nonpartisan Center for Research Security & Integrity, a Virginia-based nonprofit.

The report doesn’t allege illegal activity. Instead it argues that a big part of the problem is precisely that the US government has not put more limits on research collaboration.

For example, because academic research is exempt from export controls, in many cases there’s nothing to stop a professor in the US from working with a defense lab in China — even if Washington has otherwise restricted it from accessing US technology on national-security grounds.

The analysis documented collaborations with 45 🇨🇳 government-designated defense labs from 2019 through mid-2025. The resulting 313 English-language articles involved topics such as directed energy systems, artificial intelligence and high-performance computational physics.

“These are critical technology fields that can fundamentally change future military and warfighting capabilities, yet PRC defense laboratories are directly benefiting from this research.”

The total amount of federal dollars aiding Chinese military research would be higher if it took into account all Chinese labs working on defense, such as those run by provincial governments or state-owned enterprises.

“The US and many of its key allies have failed to adapt to a contradictory reality: one of the most significant contributors to and participants in the global scientific enterprise is also our greatest adversary and strategic rival.”

The study found that Princeton University and the University of Tennessee Knoxville were among Chinese defense labs’ most frequent collaborators.

Princeton researchers published 11 articles between July 2020 and Jan 2023 with a co-author affiliated with the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics. That lab’s parent, the China Academy of Engineering Physics, leads China’s nuclear and advanced-weapons research, development and production.

Both have been subjected to US export controls since 1997.

Each of those 11 articles acknowledges a gift to Princeton from Chinese AI giant iFlytek, which the US added to its export controls list in 2019, where it remains.

The articles also all credit Department of Energy funding, while nine cite additional funding from the Office of Naval Research.

The report also highlights extensive collaboration between the University of Tennessee Knoxville and the State Key Laboratory of Powder Metallurgy at 🇨🇳 Central South University.

SKLPM was founded in 1989 by a key scientist involved in China’s first atomic weapons and missile development programs and who has more recently made contributions to the country’s hypersonics program.

A materials science professor at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Peter Liaw, co-authored the most articles with Chinese defense laboratories among any scientist in the study. 42 of his publications included researchers from SKLPM and acknowledged federal funding or support from the NSF or Army Research Office.

https://t.co/CN8SSP36tu

[Bloomberg @business]

Almost $1 billion in US government funding helped fuel a series of research projects involving defense labs in China in recent years, according to a new study that concludes security policies around such partnerships have failed https://t.co/5Ot5tK4J50

[Select Committee on China @ChinaSelect]

Ohio taxpayers helped reopen a shuttered GM plant, only to watch a CCP-linked glassmaker undercut a U.S. competitor that’s been operating since the 1950s.

Now 250 jobs are at risk, and another American factory is on the brink. This is how China hollows out U.S. manufacturing from within.

https://t.co/ckBUGUkkGl

[Attorney General James Uthmeier @AGJamesUthmeier]

Today, we sent a letter to Mindray North America demanding an audit and disclosure of the company’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

As part of our office’s proactive efforts to protect Floridians’ personal information, we will also be demanding audits from United Imaging, MicroPort, Edan Instruments, Lepu Medical Tech, Shinva Medical Instruments, Neusoft Medical Systems, Longest Medical, and Jiangsu Yuyue Medical.

[Daily Caller @DailyCaller]

🚨SCOOP: A Chinese intelligence official’s autobiography details decades of efforts to cultivate ties with American officials, culminating in an alleged plot with a three-star U.S. general to annex strategic territory for Beijing, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.