Well, there are two dimensions to it. There's partnership with a university researcher in China, and that can be one-on-one or with a group. However, the rubber really hits the road with the Chinese companies that approach researchers here in Canada and offer a large amount of money with the proviso that the whole contract is to be made secret and that the senior administration of the university is never to tell anyone who inquires about it that this money is coming from Huawei or some other Chinese company.
That's a big problem, and universities have concealed their information about secrecy. A University of Alberta AI lab was shown to be partnering with SenseTime and Alibaba. It removed that information from its website, but if you go on the Hong Kong AI Lab website, you will see that there is a university AI lab in Alberta, Amii, partnering with Alibaba Group, Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Damo Academy and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund, plus SenseTime, and Alibaba has developed a surveillance technology that will pick a Uyghur, or another minority, out of a crowd. This is part of the repression. It's very concerning.