Public research is published and public. Why is this news? Canadian universities aren’t really involved in private, for-profit research.
That’s not what is going on here. They managed to find single studies from the years 2016, 2020, 2022 and 2023 where it is actually joint papers.
The schools these guys worked at should have known better, these guys should have known better… but it’s good that the regulations are now explicit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Canadian academics have been collaborating with Iranian universities on drone technology and other research that could benefit Tehran’s armed forces and that country’s allies.
Moscow’s war on Ukraine has led to unprecedented levels of Russian-Iranian co-operation in the military, economic and political spheres, according to the European Council on Foreign Relation think tank.
In January, Ottawa announced strict new national-security rules to protect cutting-edge science and advanced technology from ending up in the hands of China, Russia and Iran, including research in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
“I am glad the government is doing something about it but the issue is with any kind of intellectual property, these hostile countries and their intelligence services will try to find a different way to try to access this information, whether it is through business or shell companies,” Mr. Bisson said.
Some of the NUDT researchers were experts in missile performance and guidance systems, mobile robotics and automated surveillance, all of which are now on Canada’s banned list of technologies.
The Guardian reported Wednesday that academics in the United States, Britain and Australia have also collaborated on drone technology with Sharif University, which is known to have close ties to the country’s military.
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What. The. Fuck.
