Pentagon threatens to cut federal funding to 30 universities over foreign academic partnerships

Harvard, Yale, Stanford and others face directive to review and cut alliances Pentagon deems national security risk

Thirty US universities could lose federal funding unless they review and cut foreign academic partnerships the Pentagon considers a national security risk within the next two weeks, under a Pentagon directive aimed largely at ties to Chinese institutions.

Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown and Cornell are among the institutions ordered to conduct and report the reviews - and end partnerships deemed problematic - by 31 August, according to a US official who provided the full list to the Guardian.