In just the past five years alone, Prof. Zhengli Shi has almost US$10 million in grants to study coronaviruses.

  Aside from a 5-year leave from 1995 to 2000 to get her PhD at University of Montpellier in France, she’s been at the Institute for an amazing 30 years.
Notably, starting in 2014, Prof. Zhengli began to win particularly large sums of grant funding for the express purpose of researching and experimenting with coronaviruses — often receiving numerous, overlapping grants for the same time period. What’s just as interesting is where a lot of this funding originated — the US government. On January 6, 2014, Prof. Zhengli received a US$665,000 grant from the National Institute of Health for a study named The Ecology of Bat Coronaviruses and the Risk of Future Coronavirus Emergence (NIAID R01 AI1 10964) and then four days later on January 10, 2014, an additional US$559,500 grant from the United States Agency of International Development for research studied entitled Emerging Pandemic Threats PREDICT 2_China (Project No. AID-OAA-A-14–00102).
  On top of these lucrative American grants she concurrently received similarly significant grants from the National Basic Research program of China, the Chinese Academy of Science, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and from the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences totaling over US$2,500,000 for researching interspecies transmission of zoonotic viruses, the identification, genetic evolution and pathogenesis of bat viruses, the genetic variation of pathogens in Africa, the evolution mechanism of the adaptation of bat SARS-related coronaviruses to host receptor molecules, the risk of interspecies infection, genetic evolution and transmission mechanism of important bat-borne viruses, and pathogen biology studies on novel swine coronaviruses.

 

In just the past five years alone, Prof. Zhengli Shi has almost US$10 million in grants to study coronaviruses.     https://media.8kun.top/file_store/0fe7860c33e8b75dcb57d4a9688b77729cd0cad28d83013946c8d429e36edd7f.pdf

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10-23-19  Earlier this year, an adjunct professor at the University of California–Los Angeles was convicted for his role in an elaborate scheme to fraudulently acquire sensitive microchip technology from a U.S. firm, and illegally export it to China.  The semiconductor chips in question have both commercial and military applications, including in missile guidance systems for the U.S. military.

Yi-Chi Shih, 64, a dual U.S. and Taiwanese citizen, in violation of U.S. export controls, managed to ship the chips to a Chinese company that he oversaw, which was building a factory in the southwestern city of Chengdu to produce the same type of devices.  The semiconductor chips in question have both commercial and military applications, including in missile guidance systems for the U.S. military. 

Court documents show that the company was planning to make the chips for the Chinese military to be used for missile guidance….Since January 2018 more than 30 China-related espionage cases, including those involving Chinese intelligence officers, former U.S. intelligence officials, Chinese nationals, and naturalized U.S. citizens from China, have made the headlines….

The Chinese regime, meanwhile, has consistently denied that it’s stolen secrets from U.S. companies and institutions to further its economy.  “They have a master shopping list by industry, with heavy emphasis on technology and finance,” Fleming said.  Fleming said that, based on his professional experience as well as interactions with representatives of government and businesses, he estimates that there are about 150,000 individuals operating on behalf of the Chinese regime throughout the U.S. private sector, military and government.  Fleming said that every American needs to understand that China is a Communist country, governed by a party that has been running a covert war against the United States.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-authorities-close-in-on-chinese-espionage_3125374.html 

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11-7-15  

Yang Kuang-yu, center, is arrested by agents of the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau yesterday in Taoyuan on suspicion of stealing corporate secrets and personnel information to be used in talent poaching.

Photo: Cheng Shu-ting, Taipei Times

  More than 50 investigators yesterday raided 12 locations, including the offices and homes of seven former and current employees of Win Semiconductors, and have seized important evidence, the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau said in a statement.

   “Investigators found seven suspects, led by one surnamed Yang (楊), have passed information on key technologies developed by Win Semiconductors to its Chinese rival, Chengdu Gastone,” an investigator said on the telephone.

  Chengdu Gastone approached former Win Semiconductors employees and its equipment suppliers via headhunting agencies to obtain trade secrets and key technology information, said the investigator, who declined to be named.  The Chinese semiconductor company offered bribes and jobs in exchange for valuable technology information, the bureau said in the statement.  http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2015/11/07/2003631850

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6-18-19  In January 2018 the FBI arrested Americans Yi-Chi Shih and Kiet Anh Mai for allegedly buying microchips that can be used for military applications from a U.S. company under the pretense that they were for domestic use, while scheming to send the technology to China.  A third suspect, Canadian Ishiang Shih—a professor at McGill University and Yi-Chi Shih’s brother—is also charged by U.S. authorities in relation to the case, although he hasn’t yet been extradited and is free in Canada….

  Prosecutors allege the presentation was a “business plan for the development of a semiconductor foundry in the PRC to manufacture MMICs [monolithic microwave integrated circuits].”  MMICs are used for electronic warfare, radar and military communications among other applications.   On one of the presentations, the header had the name of a Chinese company, Chengdu Gastone Technology Co. (CGTC) whose president was Yi-Chi Shih, authorities say.  CGTC established an MMIC manufacturing facility in Chengdu, China.   https://www.theepochtimes.com/air-china-pilots-involved-in-scheme-to-send-us-technology-with-military-applications-to-china-authorities-allege_2968174.html

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