According to Strider’s research, the University of Waterloo tops the list of such Canadian organizations. From 2017 to 2022, the university’s researchers published 46 papers in collaboration with researchers affiliated with China’s NUDT. Some of that research, published in 2018 and 2020, involved photonics, a key enabling technology for many emerging national-security systems.
Conservative foreign affairs critic Michael Chong said Mr. Champagne needs to act even more boldly and issue a ministerial policy directive to Ottawa’s four granting bodies that sets firmer limits on research. “It should be a directive, not guidelines, and it should ban the granting councils from funding any research in partnership with Beijing’s military,” he said.