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Top police officials had also flagged the role of Chinese commercial entities in intelligence gathering in the country. (Shutterstock)
Sources said the government has decided to issue guidelines to educational institutions, especially technology institutions, in the coming days as several incriminating evidences have come to the fore that China is allegedly running a global espionage campaign through its technology companies. is driving
The Center has decided to advise higher educational institutions to “restrict” academic collaboration with Chinese companies, especially tech firms, citing security reasons. News18 has learned that it is planning to direct educational institutions to conduct a detailed investigation before entering into any Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with such firms.
Sources said the government has decided to issue guidelines to educational institutions, especially technology institutions, in the coming days as several incriminating evidences have come to the fore that China is allegedly running a global espionage campaign through its technology companies. is driving
“It has been decided to advise Indian colleges and universities that they should not enter into academic collaboration with Chinese Commercial Entities (CCEs) without proper approval from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA),” sources said. ” ,
A former senior professor associated with IIT-Delhi, wishing not to be named, said: “Similar instructions have been issued earlier in oral communication from the MHA to not engage in any academic or research projects with Chinese companies.” were done because there were political and strategic issues involved. There are many tech giants from China who wanted to engage in research activities with the institute, but we had specific instructions to turn down any such collaboration.”
The sources said educational institutions will also be advised to take prior permission from the relevant ministries before signing any MoUs and educational exchange programs with China-based companies, universities and institutes.
“It has been decided to prohibit any activity on the part of educational institutions under any kind of MoU or such collaboration with CCE till it is approved by the concerned ministry. Similar instructions were given earlier also and it has been decided to advise them again after it is learned that some educational institutions are signing MoUs and exchange programs with CCEs for various technical projects, but they Not taking approval.
Top police officers also highlighted the role of CCE in intelligence gathering in the country during the recent conference of Directors General of Police and Inspectors General of Police, which was attended by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The role of CCE was highlighted in papers presented by officials at the conference held during January 20-22 in the national capital. All submitted papers were posted on the conference website, but were later removed.
“Continued intelligence investigations since 2020 have revealed a troubling picture of the role of CCE in India. They are used in line with the Chinese state’s ‘thousand grains of sand’ approach to intelligence collection to fuel the state’s boundless appetite for data and secrets. work in cce India With five primary objectives: to influence minds, create economic control, for acquisition of data, for CI/espionage and to target scientists for innovation and IPR,” one of the papers presented during the conference said.
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