House bill brings fresh debate over trade secret theft in academia
By Melissa Ritti ( May 6, 2026, 22:57 GMT | Comment) -- As Congress mulls legislation reviving the China Initiative under a new name, a familiar question has reemerged: whether policies designed to protect US intellectual property threaten to erode the university research system that produces it.A China Initiative-style program aimed at curbing trade secret theft and technology transfer linked to China is advancing in Congress, putting researchers at US universities under renewed scrutiny....
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