Posted on 04/21/2018 8:58:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It’s a strategy to tighten ideological control. And it’s happening around the world.
In July 2017, a group of nine Chinese students and faculty from Huazhong University of Science and Technology participating in a summer program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) formed a Chinese Communist Party branch on the third floor of Hopkins Hall, a campus dormitory.
The group held meetings to discuss party ideology, taking a group photo in front of a red flag emblazoned with a hammer and sickle, according to a July 2017 article and photos posted to the Huazhong University website. The students’ home institution had sent four teachers on the trip, directing them to set up the party cell to strengthen “ideological guidance” while the students were in the United States.....
Illinois is not alone. Party cells have appeared in California, Ohio, New York, Connecticut, North Dakota, and West Virginia. The cells appear to be part of a strategy, now expanded under Chinese President Xi Jinping, to extend direct party control globally and to insulate students and scholars abroad from the influence of “harmful ideology,” sometimes by asking members to report on each other’s behaviors and beliefs.
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University leftists probably welcome them with open arms.
Our universities are being Mao-Maoed.
Why not.
The Russians did it 70 years ago and it has been a huge success for the bad guys.
Red Guard playbook. Redux of Mao’s 1960s campaign.
All aided by the left and democrat traitors.
Tin foil hat time.
We, and the west in general, have become truly stupid in regard to the self preservation of ourselves and our culture. The only good thing is the Chinese and the communist do not like muzzies. Unless of course it furthers their purpose.
We need a Senate investigation to determine if communists in China or Russia have attempted to influence professors in American colleges and universities.
That would be an interesting investigation. Watching fundamentalist, hidebound, hard-line, hard-shell liberals howl in protest of the investigation would be fun too.
Every US enemy has been setting up cells at universities for decades. Why the US public tax dollar made colleges admit foreigners over US taxpaying citizens is beyond the pale.
The real problem for Emperor Xi is that the Communist Party is communist in name only. Communists don’t have stock markets. Communists can’t buy homes - they’re assigned homes. They don’t look for jobs - they’re assigned jobs. Ordinary Chinese aren’t morons - they can read between the lines. The Party is just the latest and most incompetent and murderous line of hereditary aristocrats to rule China. The moment economic growth stops, there will be an accounting.
Foreigners pay full tuition.
It resembles Nazi Germany more than anything.
You can own stuff, but the government can seize it at any time on a whim, if you are deemed a threat.
My old Alma Mater. It had Communists on the faculty as far back as the 1950’s.
We, and the west in general, have become truly stupid in regard to the self preservation of ourselves and our culture. The only good thing is the Chinese and the communist do not like muzzies. Unless of course it furthers their purpose.
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under "communism" and "fascism." As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, "the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany."
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
-- F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
I don't think 75 years have changed this assessment. If anything the passage of time has proved Hayek correct again and again.
And of course the "the liberal of the old type", "those who really believe in individual freedom," has little to do with our modern Liberals, who are typically socialist useful idiots. Our Left corrupts language at every turn. It is the modern conservative who believes in individual freedom, while the Left suppresses it at every turn with speech codes, 2A restrictions, etc.
The Road to Serfdom - In Cartoons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QD75lUm51s
If you don’t want to hear the “Platoon” music, just turn the sound off.
“It resembles Nazi Germany more than anything.
You can own stuff, but the government can seize it at any time on a whim, if you are deemed a threat.”
Were the Chinese that far off with what they did in Tibet?
California is full of them now it’s time to take the show on the road.
Pretty sure there have been spies for years
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