Is US helping Chicom spies?

 Washington Examiner:

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Chinese Communist Party spy agencies have launched a relentless campaign to acquire American intellectual property that can propel the country's bid for “economic and technological leadership” vis-a-vis the U.S., as FBI Director Christopher Wray put it in 2020. Those cloak-and-dagger operations are reinforced by an array of research networks operating in the open, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee fears, and the misgiving has spurred a new congressional effort aimed at “preventing PLA acquisition of United States technology,” as the legislative title has it, by cracking down on U.S. entities linked to China's so-called military-civil fusion strategy.

“Beijing will lie, cheat, and steal to become more powerful than the United States,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), said in a statement to the Washington Examiner. “All too often, our nation’s scientists and experts partner with their Chinese counterparts without understanding how their research will be weaponized by the Chinese military.”

Rubio has proposed a bill that would ban “any scientific research or technical exchange that has a direct bearing on, or the potential for dual use in, the development of technologies” in several high-end research areas, including quantum computing, aerospace technology, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence. The restrictions would apply to an ambiguous array of “Chinese entities of concern” that have arranged research partnerships with U.S.-funded agencies, colleges and universities, and private companies.

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Rubio is right.  These joint ventures have been a mistake.