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Josh Hawley: “The Chinese government tried to place nationals into…”

Featuring: Josh Hawley, Republican | U.S. Senate Missouri

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Senator Hawley On "Special Report with Bret Baier" | 02.04.26

Published | Video Starts at 04:27

But what about other efforts inside the US By China? Oh, I think that there's a lot and we know of some of them. I just mentioned a few of them where they deliberately, The Chinese government tried to place nationals into sensitive research projects, into sensitive positions at our universities, into sensitive laboratories. They've tried to stand up front groups essentially like the Confucius Institutes that appear to be about education. (04:27–04:36)

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