Washington, Oct. 15 -- John Moolenaar, chairman of the US House Select Committee on China, has urged Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to expand the Department of War's Section 1286 List by adding Chinese research institutions, universities, laboratories and talent recruitment programmes allegedly linked to China's defence sector, according to a press release by the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (SCCCP).

In a letter to Hegseth, Moolenaar recommended adding 14 institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 62 Chinese laboratories and national defence laboratories, 58 universities, 22 foreign talent recruitment programmes, and the China Scholarship Council (CSC) and its affiliated scholars to the list.

According to the press...