The U.S. government has given Chinese and Russian entities at least $1.3 billion for various research programs over the past five years, according to Open the Books.
The analysis revealed millions of taxpayer dollars have been given to, a Chinese software developer for military tech support, a Russian health insurance provider that has since been sanctioned, and Chinese agriculture companies.
Overall, using data obtained from the Congressional Research Service, Ernst, and Open the Books tracked $490 million in U.S. grants and contracts paid to Chinese entities and another $870 million paid to Russian entities.
According to Ernst’s analysis, one program, a $58.7 million State Department grant, including giving a Chinese organization, Beijing-based Crossroads Cultural Communication, $96,875 for “gender equality.”
Another, a $51.6 million grant from the Department of Defense, resulted in $6 million in funding for Chinese tech firm Beijing Juehua Trading Co. to provide “deployment and distribution command” software for the U.S. military.
In addition, a $4.2 million Health and Human Services program granted $770,466 to the Pavlov Institute, a state-run lab located in St. Petersburg, Russia, to experiment on cats running on treadmills.
Also, $1.45 million was granted to entities in Russia for COVID-19 pandemic virus tracking.
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