However, more concerning than the ideological control over these commercial ventures is the civil-military fusion all SOE's are required to engage in with the Chinese regime. In February 2020 Isaac Kardon, a China military expert, told the U.S.

A primary goal of Beijing is to block access to Chinese data by global firms, but retain access to foreign data by Chinese firms in their civil-military fusion state. That should say everything about how Beijing values and wants to use data.

He pointed to the Chinese Communist Party's aggressive national strategy known as “civil-military fusion,” under which the regime repurposes civilian technology and research to fuel its military rise.

There is a doctrine of military-civil fusion in China. Civilians are required to cooperate with the military on anything that has a military potential. It’s a known fact that the Chinese military was working in the Wuhan lab.

Likewise, commercial advances in Chinese AI systems are rapidly adapted to national security applications with the government having unfettered access to any private sector technology through the civil-military fusion strategy implemented in the past

That's why they have this doctrine of military-civil fusion, which means that everything that a nominally civilian institution has is available to the Chinese military.

The answer was simple—with the departure of America, Panama was an intuitive geo-strategic outpost for the civil-military fusion of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Silk Road strategy.

Additionally, the Trump administration also targeted China’s “civil-military fusion” strategy, which compels Chinese private companies and universities to support its military development.

“Some PRC companies involved in undersea cable development are actively engaged in helping to modernize the Peoples Liberation Army as part of China’s civil-military fusion strategy,” Wild said.

Both WeChat and TikTok collect vast swaths of data from users and are active participants in China's "civil-military fusion and is subject to mandatory cooperation with the intelligence services of the CCP," according to the department.

And Japan did, you know, civil-military fusion in the middle. And when it hit Pearl Harbor, it very quickly took the Philippines and Guam, and it cut the U.S. off at Hawaii.

In 2017, he created the Central Commission for Integrated Military and Civilian Development, effectively cementing the strategy now referred to as “Military-Civil Fusion" (MCF), which began in 2015.

The Chinese even have a doctrine for this—“civil-military fusion.”

The plan said that technological developments must be performed through cooperation between the military and civilians, which the Chinese regime called “civil-military fusion.”

As I said, I believe we should be banning private companies' investment into private companies as well, because of this doctrine of civil-military fusion. This is a unified communist state.

It trains under the doctrine of civil-military fusion, conducting long distance transport exercises using Navy and civilian ships, railways, and military and civilian aircraft. What Are the Chinese Marines Capable of Doing?

Although in the case of the U.S. actions, there are real reasons for closer investigations given Chinese civil-military fusion, lax safety standards, IP theft, and more.

A spokesperson for Liberal Tasmania Senator Eric Abetz told The Epoch Times that "the ARC's provision of over AU$262 million to research collaboration with Chinese institutions over the last five years, in the context of 'civil-military fusion,' is deeply

“The problem is that China has a lot of civil-military fusion plans, and most of this information will be used in weapon research.

Given revelations about the latest Chinese biowarfare paper, along with China’s criminal behavior related to COVID-19, genocide against the Uyghurs, highly aggressive military stance toward the United States and allies, national strategy of civil-military

Nuclear power: We are the greatest civilian user of nuclear power, and we are ahead in fusion nuclear power. For military purposes, I do not want to get into that, but we have 6,000 to 7,000 nuclear weapons. China has 600 to 700.

(Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images) “Thanks to Beijing’s doctrine of civil-military fusion—in which any commercial or research-based military advance that has military applications will be shared with the PLA—the Chinese military has made rapid advancements

In 2017, the PLA formally codified its Civil Military Fusion doctrine, which mandates that technologies developed by private companies and institutions can be repurposed for military use if needed.

The civil-military fusion efforts of the CCP are adept at constantly creating new or slightly differently named companies, so the coincidental nexus of COMAC/UAC with Leonardo/Alenia, which is simultaneously performing Boeing 787 should be considered

The CCP apparatus including the Ministry of State Security, People’s Liberation Army, and all extensions of the Civil Military fusion of the CCP read and analyze everything, I repeat everything we publish and say in public.

This strategy is reflected in the regime’s “civil-military fusion” doctrine, which seeks to leverage innovations by private enterprises to power military development, Shoebridge said.

"China has engaged in a strategic civil-military fusion of research that often blurs the lines to the outsider," China Studies professor Jorgen Delman said in a note to the university's head afterwards, recommending better screening of Chinese researchers

“This is a smart move and a cunning strategy [by Beijing] because every piece of global IP would advance China’s Military-Civil Fusion efforts,” said James Edwards, patent policy adviser to the Eagle Forum Education and Legal Defense Fund.

Civil-military fusion of all Chinese high-tech companies. PLA exploitation of Chinese information technology (IT) companies for surveillance and data-gathering purposes. Widespread Chinese economic espionage.

Weichert doesn't think the tech industry in the United States, left to its own devices, will push forward technology developments fast enough to match the civil–military fusion driving China's space program.