WASHINGTON >> A House committee focused on threats from China argues in a new report that U.S. federal research funding had helped to advance Chinese technologies with military applications, fueling a potential national security rival to the United States.

The report argues that Chinese partnerships with U.S.-funded researchers and universities have helped to propel Beijing’s advancements in fields including hypersonic and nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and semiconductors, and that these developments may one day influence how the two nations perform on the battlefield.

The report — put out by the Republican members of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and the House Committee on Education and the Workforce — also recommends stricter guidelines around federally funded research, including significantly curtailing the ability of researchers who receive U.S. grants to work with Chinese universities and companies that have military ties.

Part of the report focuses on several joint China-based institutes between Chinese and U.S. universities, including one by the University of California, Berkeley, and another with the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Both Berkeley and Georgia Tech disputed many of the report’s findings. But in a statement to The New York Times on Friday, Berkeley said it had decided to terminate its ownership in the Chinese institute, in part because of its lack of visibility into research being conducted there by affiliates of other institutions.

Georgia Tech also announced that it would discontinue its participation in its joint institute and work to end its degree programs in China, saying the inclusion of its Chinese partner on a restricted U.S. trade list had made the cooperation “untenable.”

Democrats on the China committee chose not to sign on to the report, saying that it was a conversation that required more nuance. A representative for the committee’s Democratic staff said in a statement that while nobody supported problematic research collaborations that harmed national security, cutting off all collaboration would not serve U.S. interests, either.

Growing tensions between the United States and China have called into question many kinds of academic and commercial relationships that were formerly encouraged by both countries.

The United States remains a global leader in science and technology, but China’s capacity has leaped ahead in certain areas including materials science, hypersonics and nanotechnology. The Chinese government has said its scientific advancements serve an important purpose in helping it build its military.

If the report’s recommendations are adopted, it could significantly curtail the number of scientific collaborations between the world’s largest economies.

U.S. rules on such cooperation with China and other adversarial countries now draw a bright line between fundamental research, which seeks to advance basic scientific understanding and remains unregulated, and applied research, which uses that knowledge to develop specific technologies and applications and faces certain security restrictions.

The House committee report argues that for technologies that may have military and commercial applications, even fundamental research collaborations have led to significant Chinese breakthroughs that could harm U.S. national security.

The report identifies nearly 9,000 research publications released over the past decade that were supported by funding from the Defense Department or the U.S. intelligence community, and included co-authors affiliated with institutions in China. More than 2,000 of those included co-authors directly affiliated with the Chinese military research and industrial base, the report said.

The vast majority of those papers pertained to so-called dual-use technologies valuable to both the military and the commercial sector, the report said.

The report gave six studies in which researchers who received federal funding helped to advance China’s nuclear weapons technology or its capabilities in artificial intelligence, advanced lasers, semiconductors and robotics.

“The troubling conclusion then is that Department of Defense-funded research intended to allow the U.S. military to maintain a technological edge over its adversaries — has likely been used to enable and strengthen” the Chinese military, the report said.

The report also looked at three joint U.S.-China academic institutions, including the programs run by Georgia Tech and Berkeley. It argued that they served as channels to transfer expertise, applied research and technologies to China, and that the U.S. universities had made lapses in reporting Chinese funding sources to the government.