Drugs in your suitcase, extortion: countries will do anything for scientific knowledge

Universities and other knowledge institutions have become more alert in recent years to attempts by countries such as China, Iran and Russia to obtain sensitive Dutch knowledge and energy, according to research by the NOS. According to programme director Peter Weijland, Delft University of Technology alone, the leader in this field, rejects around a hundred foreign scientists for this reason every year. This increased alertness is also urgently …