{"id":48394,"date":"2022-09-12T01:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/11\/imperial-college-to-shut-joint-research-ventures-with-chinese-defence-firms"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:49:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T16:49:57","slug":"imperial-college-to-shut-joint-research-ventures-with-chinese-defence-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48394","title":{"rendered":"Imperial College to shut joint research ventures with Chinese defence firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: two Chinese-sponsored aerospace research centres firms to close after warnings of \u2018sleepwalking\u2019 into aiding Chinese military<\/p>\n<p>Imperial College will shut down two major research centres sponsored by Chinese aerospace and defence companies amid a crackdown on academic collaborations with China, the Guardian has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/avic-design\/\">Avic Centre for Structural Design and Manufacturing<\/a> is a long-running partnership with China\u2019s leading civilian and military aviation supplier, which has provided more than \u00a36m to research cutting-edge aerospace materials. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/biam-imperial\/\">second centre is run jointly with Biam<\/a>, a subsidiary of another state-owned aerospace and defence company, which has contributed \u00a34.5m for projects on high-performance batteries, jet engine components and impact-resistant aircraft windshields. The centres\u2019 stated goals are to advance civilian aerospace technologies, but critics have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2019\/nov\/25\/uk-academias-links-to-chinese-defence-firms-harmful-for-national-security\">repeatedly warned<\/a> that the research could also advance China\u2019s military ambitions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/11\/imperial-college-to-shut-joint-research-ventures-with-chinese-defence-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: two Chinese-sponsored aerospace research centres firms to close after warnings of \u2018sleepwalking\u2019 into aiding Chinese militaryImperial College will shut down two major research centres sponsored by Chinese aerospace and defence companies amid&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2754,50,997,862,1278,1279,2755],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace-industry","category-china","category-defence-policy","category-higher-education","category-imperial-college-london","category-research","category-research-and-development"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48394"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48400,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48394\/revisions\/48400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}