Taxpayer-Funded Nonprofit Publishes Scientific Journal With Blacklisted Chinese Space Agency

 Ye, a member of the Chinese Communist Party, serves as editor in chief of Space: Science & Technology, a journal the American Association for the Advancement of Science publishes in coordination with the China Academy of Space Technology as part of a program with foreign scientists.

Last year, the American Association renewed a memorandum of understanding with the China Academy for Space Technology, citing the agency's role in uniting "The Communist Party of China and the Chinese government through the country's science and technology community." In addition to Space: Science & Technology, the American Association publishes several other journals with Chinese organizations as part of its "Science partner journals" program.

Weichert, the space security analyst, warned against alliances between American science groups and CCP-linked outfits like the China Academy of Space Technology, and said Congress should intervene to prevent China's space agencies from having access to the "Wider American innovation sphere." The Chinese Communist Party "Will use anything and everything, including the influence over our scientific journals, to manipulate and stymie real American research," he told the Washington Free Beacon.

Most of the articles in Space: Science & Technology appear to be straightforward reports about China's technological developments for its space program.

Others tout the Chinese space program's projects, which Beijing has highlighted as it seeks to surpass the United States in the space race.

The journal regularly promotes the Tiangong space station, which China developed as an alternative to the International Space Station.

The government titles of many of Space's editorial board members indicate militaristic purposes are at the forefront of China's space program. 

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