A new report from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has revealed that the Biden administration’s Department of Defense (DOD) collaborated with the CCP on hundreds of research publications on highly sensitive subjects to the tune of over $2.5 billion, despite administration officials at the time naming Xi Jinping’s regime as America’s greatest threat.

The report, released Friday, details how the DOD funded approximately 1,400 research papers — which the Defense Department funds in order to achieve “technological breakthroughs to equip future warfighters” — between June 2023 and June 2025 that were produced in collaboration with Chinese partners, over 800 of which were produced with entities directly connected to China’s military. As noted by the report, the collaborations — some of which are currently still active — “involved research in sensitive technical domains such as hypersonics, quantum sensing, semiconductors, artificial intelligence (AI), advanced materials, cyber warfare, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) systems, and next-generation propulsion — many with clear military applications.”

In one instance, a 12-year research partnership between a U.S. professor and a Chinese institution was discovered, which CCP officials credited with helping to develop new lightweight structural weapons technologies, including “nanomaterial synthesis” and “multiscale fine structure control.” In another example, the U.S. helped to fund “hypersonic research and development with a ‘Seven Sons of National Defense’ Chinese university — which directly supports PLA [People’s Liberation Army] hypersonic weapons research and development.”

Notably, the funding and collaborations came even as Biden administration officials themselves repeatedly warned of the threat that Beijing poses to the U.S. During a House committee hearing in January 2024, Biden’s FBI Director Christopher Wray remarked that the CCP’s “dangerous actions — China’s multi-pronged assault on our national and economic security — make it the defining threat of our generation.”

Multiple instances of the communist regime’s ongoing subterfuge against the U.S. have surfaced over the last few months, including influencing local elections, theft of military technology, smuggling of bioweapons, infiltration of universities, and more.

In addition, the House Select Committee report highlighted how multiple research relationships were formed with Chinese entities that have “well-documented roles in human rights abuses or direct participation in China’s mass surveillance apparatus.”

The report goes on to underscore multiple deficiencies within the DOD’s research and engineering (R&E) policies that could be revised going forward, including the fact that “only a small fraction of China’s known talent recruitment programs and defense-designated laboratories” have been added to the department’s prohibited list, “even though both government and private sector analyses have identified many more.” Additionally, “DOD R&E does not currently prohibit research relationships on fundamental research with entities DOD has designated as national security threats under the DOD 1260H List,” which the report argues has rendered the list “functionally meaningless.”

Experts like Gordon Chang, an author and a distinguished senior fellow at the Gatestone Institute, say that the military threat that Xi Jinping’s regime poses to the U.S. and to the Western-led international order should not be underestimated.

“This is a time when Chinese leaders could see it in their interests to either start or to continue a war,” he warned during “Washington Watch” last week. “And so therefore, we’ve got to be concerned that their interests are not ours. Our interest is to maintain peace and stability. Theirs is to take down the world, which sometimes means war.”

Chang further observed that a military move on the part of Beijing would be disastrous in light of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.

“This is a world where one more war could spark a general conflagration,” he predicted. “[W]e’ve got Chinese operatives and soldiers who are in our country ready to strike. We’ve seen so much evidence of Chinese military activity on our soil. So … we need to be absolutely concerned. And we need to hear the president of the United States talk about this. I know that it is politically not feasible to do that, but we need to get prepared, because if we don’t get prepared, the worst could happen.”