The Academic Channels Advancing PRC Military Power
The People’s Republic of China is executing a coordinated strategy to dominate the global science and technology race—and they’re leveraging unsuspecting U.S. institutions to do it.
Strider has uncovered over 100,000 instances of research collaboration between U.S. organizations and China’s PLA-linked research institutes since 2017. These partnerships extend into critical dual-use fields like AI, aerospace, quantum computing, and hypersonic vehicles—often with little scrutiny.
Whether you’re in academia, industry, or policy, this is a wake-up call to assess who’s behind your collaborations—and who benefits from them. Get the report today.
Uncover the scale of PLA-linked collaboration: Over 500 U.S. institutions, including top universities and federal labs, have co-authored papers with Chinese military-affiliated researchers.
See the technologies under threat: Joint research spans AI, hypersonics, anti-jamming systems, and directed energy—many with direct applications to modern warfare.
Learn how to protect your organization: Strider offers clear best practices to eliminate PLA-RI collaboration and safeguard U.S. innovation.
Instances of STEM collaboration between U.S. institutions and PLA-linked entities since 2017
U.S. organizations—including leading universities and national labs—engaged in these collaborations
Graduates from key Chinese partner universities go directly into the PRC defense sector