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Kate O'Keeffe

@Kate_OKeeffe

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US-China tech & national security reporter at Bloomberg; ex WSJ; ex HK, Macau, SG / [email protected] / [email protected] / signal kokeeffe.12

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Joined October 2011
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@Kate_OKeeffe
Kate O'Keeffe
1 year
NEW: It turns out Huawei has long had a secret ally in the U.S.-China tech war: a Washington DC-based nonprofit. Here's our deep dive into the pair’s decadeslong relationship:
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bloomberg.com
When Optica Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Rogan traveled to China in November, the prestigious US scientific society she runs promoted the trip internally and on social media. But it omitted a...
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Kate O'Keeffe
3 months
The findings by @SenJoniErnst add fuel to her campaign to overhaul the programs (SBIR & STTR) with stronger national-security vetting and a $75 million cap on the lifetime value of awards cos can receive–a restriction that could upend the business models of the top award winners.
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Kate O'Keeffe
3 months
NEW: 6 of the top 25 award recipients under a pair of Pentagon programs to bolster small businesses have “troubling ties” to China, including a company whose leader also served on the board of a Chinese state-backed investment vehicle, a Senate probe found.
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bloomberg.com
Six of the top 25 award recipients under a pair of Pentagon programs to bolster small businesses have “troubling ties” to China, including a company whose leader also served on the board of a Chinese...
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Kate O'Keeffe
3 months
NEW: The US is conducting a criminal antitrust investigation into pricing strategies by TP-Link, a California-based router maker with links to China whose equipment now dominates the American market.with antitrust king @joshua_sisco.
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bloomberg.com
The US is conducting a criminal antitrust investigation into pricing strategies by TP-Link Systems Inc., a California-based router maker with links to China whose equipment now dominates the American...
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Kate O'Keeffe
4 months
RT @ew_jin: In which I share a few thoughts on the domestic and geopolitical landscape that Chinese firms in strategic sectors must navigat….
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bloomberg.com
The ubiquitous but often overlooked Wi-Fi router lies at the heart of one of Washington’s biggest national security dilemmas — and a rift between two brothers on opposite sides of the Pacific.
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Kate O'Keeffe
4 months
NEW: The ubiquitous but often overlooked wifi router lies at the heart of one of the US’s biggest national security dilemmas—and a rift between 2 brothers on opposite sides of the Pacific. Our deep dive on TP-Link & its claim it's chosen the US over China:
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bloomberg.com
The ubiquitous but often overlooked Wi-Fi router lies at the heart of one of Washington’s biggest national security dilemmas — and a rift between two brothers on opposite sides of the Pacific.
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Kate O'Keeffe
5 months
@HouseSmallBiz @housescience @committeeonccp The committees are seeking information about how officials identify and handle threats arising from applicants’ involvement in Chinese talent programs, links to China-based subsidiaries, and receipt of funding from adversary governments or state-backed venture capital firms.
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Kate O'Keeffe
5 months
The leaders of @HouseSmallBiz  @housescience@committeeonccp sent letters to the 11 U.S. agencies that make awards through the programs, including the Defense, Health and Human Services, and Energy Departments, as well as the National Science Foundation.
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Kate O'Keeffe
5 months
NEW: The Republican leaders of three US House committees have begun an investigation into what they called China’s “systematic exploitation” of two federal funding programs that support American startups and small businesses (SBIR & STTR)
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bloomberg.com
The Republican leaders of three US House committees have begun an investigation into what they called China’s “systematic exploitation” of two federal funding programs that the Pentagon and other...
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Kate O'Keeffe
6 months
The letter to the investment firms was spearheaded by @MTAGKnudsen, the attorney general of Montana, and signed by his counterparts from Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.
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Kate O'Keeffe
6 months
More than a dozen states are probing BlackRock, Goldman and others for allegedly failing to disclose the risks of investing in China such as tariffs and a Taiwan invasion. Scoop by @DanielPFlatley reminds us Trump's China policy isn't only game in town.
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bloomberg.com
The Republican attorneys general of more than a dozen states are probing some of the US’s largest asset managers and financial institutions for what they characterize as their misrepresentations...
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Kate O'Keeffe
6 months
NEW: Pence called on Trump to uphold a law banning TikTok for national security reasons and to allow Japan’s Nippon Steel to purchase US Steel in support of global business ties, both positions more in line with traditional Republican orthodoxy.
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bloomberg.com
Former Vice President Mike Pence called on his former boss to uphold a law banning TikTok for national security reasons and to allow Japan’s Nippon Steel Corp. to purchase US Steel in support of...
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Kate O'Keeffe
8 months
The investigation was first reported a few hours ago by my dear friends @heathersomervil.@dnvolz @aviswanatha.[Insert stab in the heart].
wsj.com
TP-Link is the bestselling router on Amazon—and has been linked to Chinese cyberattacks.
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Kate O'Keeffe
8 months
The executive order that serves as the basis for the probe gives the US sweeping power to ban information and communications technology firms linked to foreign adversaries from operating in the US if they’re found to pose an “unacceptable risk” to national security.
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Kate O'Keeffe
8 months
NEW: The US has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated Chinese cyber attacks.
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bloomberg.com
The US government has launched a national-security investigation into TP-Link, the China-founded router maker whose equipment now dominates the American market and has been targeted in repeated...
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
@FauxSci @digitalsci @TorontoMet This is our original article on how @Huawei worked with Washington DC-based scientific society @OpticaWorldwide to spend millions sponsoring scientists without their knowledge. Jeff Stoff contributed analysis: .
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Huawei Technologies has been secretly funding cutting-edge research through an unrelated Washington-based foundation despite US blacklisting, a Bloomberg News investigation finds
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
Seminal work here by Jeff Stoff, founder of the Center for Research Security & Integrity (and ex U.S. government ace China analyst), Leslie McIntosh (@FauxSci) of @digitalsci and An Chi Lee of @TorontoMet.
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
At the same time, "no efforts have been made by liberal democracies to systematically identify, catalog, and characterize" China’s practices to help the international research community reduce the risks of collaboration, the paper says.
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
While research institutions in liberal democracies stress the importance of academic freedom, transparency, integrity, and reciprocity, Chinese entities "routinely violate these norms," the study found, citing examples.
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
Our reporting on Huawei funding US scientists without their knowledge (& at times also in violation of their universities' policies) is featured in new paper cataloging ways Chinese entities violate ethical norms of international research collaboration
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Kate O'Keeffe
11 months
And here is the latest Congressional statement on the matter:. @housescience @sciencedems.
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