{"id":3753,"date":"2021-02-08T14:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2021-02-08T14:11:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T10:11:54","slug":"uk-academics-investigated-over-suspicion-of-helping-china-build-mass-destruction-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/uk-academics-investigated-over-suspicion-of-helping-china-build-mass-destruction-weapons\/","title":{"rendered":"UK academics investigated over suspicion of helping China build mass destruction weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Almost 200 British academics are being investigated on suspicion of unwittingly helping the Chinese government build weapons of mass destruction,<strong>&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong>informs, referring to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/hundreds-of-uk-academics-investigated-over-weapons-links-to-china-bpcks76bv\" target=\"_blank\">The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are suspected of violating strict export laws intended to prevent intellectual property in highly sensitive subjects being handed to hostile states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The individuals could face a maximum of ten years in prison if found in breach of the Export Control Order 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A source told The Times that the government was preparing to send enforcement notices to up to 200 UK citizens working at more than a dozen British universities. The individuals are suspected of transferring world-leading research in advanced military technology such as aircraft, missile designs, and cyberweapons to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Security services are concerned that British intellectual property could fall into the Chinese government&#8217;s hands, helping Beijing develop weapons of mass destruction. Officials also fear the technology could be used to repress political dissidents and minorities such as Uighur Muslims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the academics under investigation are suspected of unwittingly breaching the laws by striking commercial deals with Chinese companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We could be seeing dozens of academics in courts before long,&#8221; a source said. &#8220;If even 10 percent lead to successful prosecutions, we&#8217;d be looking at around 20 academics going to jail for helping the Chinese build super-weapons.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Exporters of military goods and those engaged in the transfer of military technology specified in the Export Control Order 2008 require a license to export or transfer from the UK,&#8221; a government spokesman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 200 British academics are being investigated on suspicion of unwittingly helping the Chinese government build weapons of mass destruction,&#8220;Q\u0130A.AZ&#8221;\u00a0informs, referring to\u00a0The Times. They are suspected of violating strict export laws intended to prevent intellectual property in highly sensitive subjects being handed to hostile states. The individuals could face a maximum of ten years in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/uk-academics-investigated-over-suspicion-of-helping-china-build-mass-destruction-weapons\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK academics investigated over suspicion of helping China build mass destruction weapons<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qia.az\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}