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The Georgia Institute of Technology will end a partnership with a blacklisted university in China that lawmakers say has ties to the Chinese military and shut down its degree programs there, school officials announced Friday.


Georgia Tech cuts ties with Chinese school that was placed on a federal blacklist for allegedly stealing American technology with military applications.

The Georgia Institute of Technology will end a partnership with a blacklisted university in China that lawmakers say has ties to the Chinese military and shut down its degree programs there, school officials announced Friday. But in 2020 Tianjin University was put on a U.S. government blacklist — the Commerce Department’s Entity List — for allegedly stealing American technology with military applications, according to lawmakers. At that point, Georgia Tech began assessing its partnerships in China, canceled plans to add Ph.D programs and capped the number of students at 10 percent of its original goal.

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