University of Montreal Signed Agreements in 2019 With Chinese Tech Institute Tied to China’s Military

View of the campus of the Université de Montréal on Sept. 16, 2022. Shutterstock

The University of Montreal (UdeM) says two 2019 memorandums of understanding (MOUs) it signed with a China-based educational institution linked to the Chinese military never moved forward to begin actual work.

The China-based school, the Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), is on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Entity List, added “for acquiring and attempting to acquire U.S.-origin items in support of programs for the People’s Liberation Army,” activity that’s “contrary to national security and foreign policy interests.”