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FAUCI: "Thank you for that question, Senator Marshall. We have, at the NIH and in other agencies in the federal government, had very productive, peer-reviewed, highly regarded research projects with our Chinese colleagues that have led to some major advances in biomedical research. So, I don’t think I’d be able to tell you that we are going to stop funding Chinese. We obviously need to be careful and make sure that when we do fund them, we have the proper peer review and we go through all the established guidelines. I might point out that grants that go to foreign countries, including China, have State Department clearance. So any time that we do find anything in China or any other country, that has to go through a clearance with the State Department."