new: [dev] add ASPI's China Defence University Tracker. #574
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Thanks to Cormac Doherty for writing the web scraper! To update the galaxy run the included gen_defence_university.py script. "The China Defence Universities Tracker is a database of Chinese institutions engaged in military or security-related science and technology research. It was created by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre. It includes entries on nearly 100 civilian universities, 50 People’s Liberation Army institutions, China’s nuclear weapons program, three Ministry of State Security institutions, four Ministry of Public Security universities, and 12 state-owned defence industry conglomerates. The Tracker is a tool to inform universities, governments and scholars as they engage with the entities from the People’s Republic of China. It aims to build understanding of the expansion of military-civil fusion—the Chinese government’s policy of integrating military and civilian efforts—into the education sector. The Tracker should be used to inform due diligence of Chinese institutions. However, the fact that an institution is not included here does not indicate that it should not raise risks or is not involved in defence research. Similarly, entries in the database may not reflect the full range and nature of an institution’s defence and security links." - ASPI (https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/about/)
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This is really cool! Need to check why the checks are not passing. |
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This pull request introduces 2 alerts when merging b4c3ffc into 6d546eb - view on LGTM.com new alerts:
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Mmmm, it doesn't like an empty string. I'll fix the gen_ script to clean that up this afternoon or so. |
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This pull request introduces 2 alerts when merging 4635146 into 6d546eb - view on LGTM.com new alerts:
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This is really great! I’ll generate the documentation and do a tweet about it. Let me know who I need to mention. |
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This is original work by ASPI which they've granted permission to include in the MISP Project. I've included attribution in the galaxy back to their UniTracker but it's a good idea to tag them on Twitter too. I believe this is their account https://twitter.com/ASPI_org. Cormac Doherty wrote the initial web scraper and I turned it into a galaxy with the co-operation of https://twitter.com/ctileague and https://twitter.com/CogSecCollab. (I'll open a feature request but while I have your attention - it would be really cool if we could include an image in a galaxy object such as the Uni logo.) Thanks! |
Thanks to Cormac Doherty for writing the web scraper! To update the galaxy run the included gen_defence_university.py script.
"The China Defence Universities Tracker is a database of Chinese institutions engaged in military or security-related science and technology research. It was created by ASPI’s International Cyber Policy Centre.
It includes entries on nearly 100 civilian universities, 50 People’s Liberation Army institutions, China’s nuclear weapons program, three Ministry of State Security institutions, four Ministry of Public Security universities, and 12 state-owned defence industry conglomerates.
The Tracker is a tool to inform universities, governments and scholars as they engage with the entities from the People’s Republic of China. It aims to build understanding of the expansion of military-civil fusion—the Chinese government’s policy of integrating military and civilian efforts—into the education sector.
The Tracker should be used to inform due diligence of Chinese institutions. However, the fact that an institution is not included here does not indicate that it should not raise risks or is not involved in defence research. Similarly, entries in the database may not reflect the full range and nature of an institution’s defence and security links." - ASPI (https://unitracker.aspi.org.au/about/)