You should not be surprised; UW-Madison has had sketchy relationships with Communists worldwide for decades.
Researchers from the University of Wisconsin worked for nearly a decade with partners in China on sensitive technology projects that likely helped China build its notorious domestic surveillance apparatus, including in Xinjiang province, where the Chinese are accused of brutal repression of the ethnic Uyghur population, a new report has found.
The quiet partnership between Wisconsin's flagship Madison campus and multiple Chinese entities developed technologies "that further entrench China's surveillance state — and that also have significant dual-use implications" for the Chinese military, according to the investigation by the global intelligence firm Strategy Risks....
Another story which will NOT be reported by the "news" outlets in MKE.
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The report explicitly states there is NO evidence of intentional technology transfer, intellectual property theft, or espionage by American professors.
The research itself (intelligent traffic systems and radio astronomy) was fundamentally benign and civilian-oriented. The issue is how the Chinese state absorbed that legitimate, open academic data and integrated it into centralized vehicle-tracking algorithms used by the police state.
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