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China’s Long Arm Reaches Into American Campuses.....
Foreign Policy ^ | 3/7/2018 | BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN

Posted on 03/07/2018 7:22:24 PM PST by caww

Beijing is stepping up efforts to inject party ideology into student life. Some Chinese students are crying foul.

When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Washington on Sept. 24, 2015 on a state visit, hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets for hours, carrying banners and flags to welcome him....Except it wasn’t entirely spontaneous...The Chinese Embassy paid students to attend and helped organize the event.... Embassy officials communicated with students via WeChat, a Chinese messaging app, during the event and into the night, responding to messages as late as 3 a.m.

According to a Chinese student at George Washington University who attended the event, participants each received about $20 for their effort, distributed through the CSSA a few months later.

This wasn’t an isolated example of paid political mobilization. A similar arrangement had occurred in February 2012, when Xi visited Washington as vice chairman. In that case, it took almost a year for the embassy to transfer the promised funds to the George Washington CSSA

While many countries, including the United States, fund educational activities abroad, the Chinese government’s direct support for, and control over, student groups appears to be unique. Beijing’s influence over these groups is also beginning to raise questions and concerns among students on American campuses, who fear they will be accused of being agents of espionage. The growing ties are also concerning U.S. government officials, who are wary of China’s political and economic reach in the United States.

(Excerpt) Read more at foreignpolicy.com ...


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1 posted on 03/07/2018 7:22:25 PM PST by caww
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It hasn't been so long ago the Chinese
didn't have to infiltrate.

2 posted on 03/07/2018 7:30:19 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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Our universities are filled to the gills with communists, gender warpists, and Islamic terrorist apologists.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 7:33:18 PM PST by Maelstorm (Free is just another word for someone else has to pay.)
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To: caww

I think a LOT of Americans jumped with both feet, onto the China train a long time ago. Given that “a long time ago” in matters of China, is about thirty years now.

When China was poor, did not have a military to speak of, did not have an economy to speak of. And had one huge communist government.

FAILING TO SEE, that in one short generation, through completely shutting out American competitors, and selling everything to America, those circumstances would change (dramatically).

Now China is rich. Their military is becoming quite competent thank you. Their economy is now as big as our own, and yet ... they still have one communist government.

Which now supplies practically EVERYTHING FOR SALE in America.

Just one generation.

Not good, America.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 7:36:18 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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Think of the Chinese not so much as communists, but as Chinese being Chinese and using the communist platform to their advantage. The rank and file are happier than pigs in slop - they’ve had a 20 fold increase in their standard of living in recent years.

The peasants have been flushed from the countryside, so no worrying about their revolting.

No problems from the mega-rich either - life is good, but they know if they cross the system, they can be whacked in a New York (er, ah - Beijing) minute.


5 posted on 03/07/2018 7:41:30 PM PST by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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Yes indeed...I agree. As soon as China opened for business Corporate America jumped in fast and furious. China needed the technology and Western Companies saw huge profits to be made.....what they didn’t plan on was everything we brought there by our people was “copied” and not long before China was manufacturing it themselves. Nothing was done without the Chinese “paying attention” as they were instructed. And here were are!


6 posted on 03/07/2018 7:43:08 PM PST by caww
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Why is this news? It's a given that *every* Chinese citizen overseas is tracked by the government and is told,in no uncertain terms,”if you disobey us we know where your grandmother lives”.
7 posted on 03/07/2018 7:45:31 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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To: Maelstorm

We’ve been willingly raped for years....”Soft Economic Charm Offensive” works. ...and our nations leaders spread our legs!


8 posted on 03/07/2018 7:45:42 PM PST by caww
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How many more Watergate movies/specials will Hollywood turn out until they produce a movie about Tienanmen Square? Why won’t Hollywood tackle this important subject? Oh, they are busy with weather change, etc.


9 posted on 03/07/2018 7:47:50 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie (The MSM is the enemy of the American people.)
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....”Chinese being Chinese”....

Oh absolutely...but you ask our leaders what they know about Chinese History and they don’t know squat...let alone our own....they’re dealing with a people having a well established Chinese mindset that never forgets their History. ..because for them living is all about handing the next generation what they have attained to maintain and sustain their nation (Empire)...they have no sense of a heavenly Kingdom they’ll be going to as we do....here and now is their game.


10 posted on 03/07/2018 7:54:30 PM PST by caww
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To: Gay State Conservative

Not anymore.


11 posted on 03/07/2018 7:55:59 PM PST by caww
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To: The_Media_never_lie

They don’t need to turn them out......China’s buying up the studios etc. or haven’t you noticed seeing and hearing Asian faces on every commercial, TV and movie now being produced we see every day.


12 posted on 03/07/2018 7:59:02 PM PST by caww
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Not anymore.

Care to put some money on that?

13 posted on 03/07/2018 8:00:02 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Obama & Hillary: The Two Most Corrupt Politicians of My Lifetime.)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Um, China basically owns Hollywood.

Why do you suppose you no longer see any movies with Richard Gere? He was quite popular.

The thing is, he spoke out about issues in China.

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/richard-gere-on-how-china-has-damaged-his-career-over-his-support-for-tibet-20170511-gw29g9.html

Now he is basically shut out. Really.


14 posted on 03/07/2018 8:01:59 PM PST by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Unless they’e associated with the leadership they’ve simply cut their folks loose here to buy, cheat, steal, live and rape whatever they want from this county. Their people are not important as persons....simply a commodity to utilize.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 8:10:50 PM PST by caww
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To: Maelstorm

Screw the commies I
I love destroying both thrm and islamonazi scum and socialists are just commie lite
We need to take over education
At least I am with my kids and friends
NO liberal around here even wants to tangle with me
I have too many facts. Historical ones that can’t be denied

Like the maoísta and stslinists mudering 100000000 +. Forced labor camps etc

The kicker. Modern time ? Venezuela of course


16 posted on 03/07/2018 8:12:15 PM PST by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: caww

chicoms bump for later....


17 posted on 03/07/2018 8:23:04 PM PST by indthkr
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... hundreds of Chinese students lined the streets for hours, carrying banners and flags to welcome him....Except it wasn’t entirely spontaneous...The Chinese Embassy paid students to attend and helped organize the event...

One more way Communists and Liberals are the same...

18 posted on 03/07/2018 8:30:42 PM PST by GOPJ (Trump isn't starting a trade war - he's trying to end the trade war against the USA - Iron Munro)
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My Vietnamese restaurateur saw the ChiComs bus in supporters to Tacoma. It was a setup.


19 posted on 03/07/2018 9:26:33 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (Demographics destroys cultures more completely than thermonuclear war.)
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Agree. Just said a similar thing on another thread. China would still be a backwater if it wasn’t for the help of the USA. We created the monster that has destroyed our manufacturing economy.


20 posted on 03/07/2018 11:24:46 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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