A corporation with deep ties to the Chinese Communist Party and links to industrial espionage produces hardware used for sensitive medical research funded by the National Institutes of Health, a Washington Examiner review has found.

United Imaging is a multinational medical technology company based in Shanghai that has conducted research alongside the Chinese military and cooperated with the state-backed Chinese Academy of Sciences. In addition to its government links, three United Imaging affiliates were charged in 2013 with transferring “nonpublic information” generated at an NIH-funded lab to the company and the Chinese Academy of Sciences in exchange for payments.