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NEW: It turns out Huawei has long had a secret ally in the U.S.-China tech war: a Washington DC-based nonprofit. Here's our deep dive into the pair’s decadeslong relationship:
Kate O'Keeffe
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Kate O'Keeffe
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US-China tech & national security reporter at Bloomberg; ex WSJ; ex HK, Macau, SG /
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- NEW: The arrested Harvard prof is tip of the iceberg. When the Texas A&M system investigated how much Chinese money its faculty was getting, officials were astounded—over 100 were involved in Chinese talent recruitment plans. Only 5 disclosed. wsj.com/articles/china… @aviswanatha
- NEW: China tried to build a network of informants inside the Federal Reserve system, at one point threatening to imprison a Fed economist during a trip to Shanghai unless he agreed to provide nonpublic data, a congressional probe found wsj.com/articles/china… with @NickTimiraos
- NEW: Huawei, the Chinese telecom blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington DC-based foundation. Proud to share my first article for Bloomberg: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… @business
- MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research board member resigns, saying: "I’m no longer confident the institute can ethically push the boundaries of science for the good of humanity while working with institutions beholden to the regime in China."
- NEW: Dozens recount pattern of sexual misconduct by casino mogul and RNC finance chairman Steve Wynn, who paid $7.5 million to a former employee after a 2005 encounter that she described to others as forced sex
- So sick of people trying to compare the U.S. with China and Russia. As distressing as the U.S. Capitol riot is, participants will be arrested for trying to SUBVERT democracy. The 50+ people just arrested in HK were detained for trying to PROMOTE it
- NEW: The FCC just gave 4 Chinese state-owned telecom operators 30 days to prove they're not Chinese state-owned telecom operators. In other words: expect imminent license revocations.
- NEW: Nevada regulators confirm WSJ's bombshell reports that ex RNC finance chair Steve Wynn was accused of raping, assaulting & harassing Wynn Resorts employees for years while company execs turned a blind eye wsj.com/articles/wynn-… @AlexandraBerzon @EBernsteinWSJ @c_kirkham
- I'm deeply saddened to be among the many talented people The Wall Street Journal just laid off. I'll be forever grateful that WSJ let me create a U.S.-China beat in the DC bureau years ago. I'd appreciate any recs to continue working in the U.S.-China space, in media or not.
- Excerpt from our NEW Huawei investigation: Cisco's lawyer flew to Shenzhen to confront Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei with evidence of the co's theft, incl typos from Cisco’s manuals that also appeared in Huawei’s. Ren gave a one-word response: “Coincidence.”
- BREAKING: U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar is planning to lead a delegation to Taiwan in a rare high-level U.S. visit to the island that China has sought to isolate diplomatically. Beijing won't be pleased.
- NEW: Our deep dive into how a Chinese military officer infiltrated a Boston University lab google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.… with @aviswanatha
- NEW: U.S. lawmakers launched a bipartisan bill to give refugee status to Hong Kongers at risk of persecution under its new national-security law, which many have decried as a tool for Beijing to suppress civil liberties wsj.com/articles/congr… w @MHackman
