A lot of chatter will be about the national security implications of this story.
But one way to fix this on the demand side is to stop the downward spiral of grant competitions.
Forcing researchers to jump through endless bureaucratic hoops for shrinking funding is a gift to schemes like this one.
theguardian.com
MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research
Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service
