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Two U.S. House of Representatives committees named NYU Shanghai as a national security threat that advances the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s military and technological agenda in an annual report for the second year in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>September report<\/span><\/a> reviewed claims that joint U.S.-China academic institutes, including NYU Shanghai, are exploited by the Chinese government to strengthen its military. The two committees that authored the report \u2014 the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party and the Committee on Education and Workforce \u2014 also claimed that after accepting major funding from the Chinese government, the U.S. institutions caved to CCP restrictions on academic freedom, speech and governance.<\/span><\/p>\n

NYU Shanghai, which partners with the state-run East China Normal University, was among over 50 joint institutes the committee said pose \u201cserious national security risks.\u201d Despite the committee raising concerns about the CCP\u2019s alleged involvement in the institutes\u2019 military and technological research in <\/span>last year\u2019s report<\/span><\/a>, NYU Shanghai \u201cfailed to act\u201d on the issue. The 2024 report resulted in the closure of eight U.S.-China joint institutes, including the Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute and Georgia Tech Shenzhen Institute, which were commended for doing \u201cthe right thing for academic freedom and U.S. national security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNYU and its outside experts are studying its details very carefully,\u201d NYU Shanghai spokesperson Yuhan Xu wrote in a statement to WSN. \u201cIt would be premature to draw conclusions, but our work continues unabated and our commitment to our mission is unchanged.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month\u2019s report conveyed specific concern around NYU Shanghai\u2019s joint physics institute with ECNU. It cited that the CCP-controlled university houses the State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, a physics research lab that <\/span>collaborates<\/span><\/a> with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation \u2014\u00a0which is <\/span>sanctioned<\/span><\/a> by a U.S. branch that investigates Chinese military-industrial companies. The report also alleged that \u201cat least one\u201d professor received over one million yuan, around $140,000, from a Chinese program for quantum computing research.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Founded as China\u2019s first joint U.S. research university in 2012, NYU Shanghai hosts <\/span>nearly 1,500 students<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>200 faculty members<\/span><\/a>. In 2015, NYU Shanghai Vice Chancellor Jeffrey Lehman told a congressional committee the campus was created on the condition that U.S. based-NYU administrators would have \u201cabsolute control over the school\u2019s curriculum, faculty, teaching style, and operations.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar in global expression at free speech organization Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told WSN that such control is not guaranteed at joint institutes such as NYU Shanghai, and that the host country\u2019s laws precede.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is fundamentally going to be a clash between universities\u2019 free speech commitments and local law in those countries,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cYou should be up front with the people who attend your campus about what risks they\u2019re going to take if they choose to engage in political expression or research that the local government doesn\u2019t like.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a <\/span>2020 defense<\/span><\/a> filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, NYU Shanghai argued that it was not subject to U.S. employment protections. The site referenced a Chinese law that \u201cprohibits a foreign entity from having control of a Chinese academic institution,\u201d saying that its chancellor must be a Chinese national and over half of its board members must be appointed by NYU Shanghai itself. <\/span>Tong Shijun<\/span><\/a>, who was born in China and became NYU Shanghai\u2019s chancellor in 2020, formerly held teaching and administrative positions at ECNU for nearly two decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2019, NYU Shanghai faculty said they had to \u201c<\/span>self-censor<\/span><\/a>\u201d their speech amid a slew of protests against the CCP\u2019s interference in Hong Kong autonomy, which has an independent judiciary under the \u201cone country, two systems\u201d framework. Criticism also rose after NYU Shanghai offered <\/span>a pro-Chinese government unlisted class<\/span><\/a> over winter break of the 2018-2019 academic year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUniversities need to be clear about how they\u2019re going to stick by their values in challenging political times,\u201d McLaughlin said. \u201cIt\u2019s also especially important that they can show that they\u2019re not choosing financial benefit over their communities and their values.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Chantal Mann at news@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story Congress probes NYU Shanghai for connection to Chinese Communist Party<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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