DoD Funding of Chinese Research Targeted

Senator Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) is continuing her campaign to keep U.S. defense dollars from being spent in Chinese research laboratories.

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General is formally investigating the funding to Chinese research labs or other nations “designed to enhance pathogens of pandemic potential," 

After the Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Inspector General announced the audit into all U.S. defense dollars diverted to Communist China’s research laboratories.  This follows reports that Chinese researchers, who collaborated with DoD, took the knowledge they acquired back to China .

Background:

One defense contractor, EcoHealth Alliance, plotted to conceal its plans to divert tax dollars from DoD to China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology for experiments on bat coronaviruses. Despite rejecting that particular proposal, the Pentagon has paid over $47 million to EcoHealth since 2008—more than any other federal agency—and continues to finance the organization’s research in Asia and Africa.