Georgia Tech will end its association with a university tied to the Chinese army, the school announced Friday.

Tianjin University joined forces with Georgia Tech in 2016 to create the Georgia Tech-Shenzhen Institute. The goal of the program was to instruct masters engineering students in Shenzen, China, a region that describes itself as the “Silicon Valley of China.”

In 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce placed Tianjin University on its Entity List, a government blacklist, for allegedly stealing American military technology. Despite this, Georgia Tech did not cancel its partnership with the school.

A group of House Republicans sent a letter to the president of Georgia Tech earlier this year calling for action from school leaders.

“Tianjin University is deeply embedded in the People’s Republic of China’s [PRC] system of military-civil fusion, under which purportedly civilian companies, universities, and technologies are leveraged for military ends,” the letter reads. “Despite Tianjin University’s links to the PLA and its efforts to steal dual-use U.S. trade secrets, Georgia Tech has continued collaborating with the university as it has done since at least 2013.”

The lawmakers demanded a slew of documents, including a list of professors working with Tianjin University and records of all meetings between the schools.

Georgia Tech explained in a news release Friday that its partnership with Tianjin University is “no longer tenable.”

“Given Georgia Tech’s extensive role in national security, it immediately began conducting a thorough review of all its activities and partnerships in China,” it wrote. “Georgia Tech decided not to launch a planned Ph.D. program and capped the number of GTSI students at 10% of the original intent. To date, Tianjin University remains on the Entity List, making Georgia Tech’s participation with Tianjin University, and subsequently GTSI, no longer tenable.”