Ottawa bans all research funding with Chinese military institutions


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The federal government has banned all research funding with Chinese military and state security institutions and urged the provinces and universities to adopt similar guidelines. Innovation Minister François-Phillipe Champagne announced late Tuesday the government has instructed the Canada Foundation for Innovation and Canada’s federal research granting councils, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, as well as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to screen funding requests from China and other hostile states. Mr. Champagne vowed to bring in new national-security guidelines to better protect cutting-edge science and technology from...