{"id":2009454,"date":"2023-08-23T14:30:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-infiltration-in-us-colleges-puts-students-crucial-tech-at-risk-researchers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T14:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:36:19","slug":"ccps-infiltration-in-us-colleges-puts-students-crucial-tech-at-risk-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-infiltration-in-us-colleges-puts-students-crucial-tech-at-risk-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP&#8217;s infiltration in US colleges jeopardizes students and vital tech: Researchers."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fccps-infiltration-in-us-colleges-puts-students-crucial-tech-at-risk-researchers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2009454&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<p>Researchers warn against the Chinese regime\u2019s efforts to \u201cindoctrinate and spy\u201d on students at U.S. universities, in an online webinar held on Aug. 17.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudson.org\/events\/chinese-communist-partys-cognitive-warfare-campaign-american-college-campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event<\/a>, hosted by the Washington-based think tank\u2064 Hudson Institute, explored the\u2063 Chinese Communist Party\u2019s (CCP)\u200d \u201ccognitive warfare\u201d\u200d campaign, which aims to\u2063 \u201cpromote CCP propaganda, spy \u2063on and intimidate Chinese exchange students, shape American views about the United States, and steal scientific, technological, and military \u2064research,\u201d \u2062according\u200b to\u200b the webinar\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>The CCP\u2019s strategies include \u2062forming bilateral ties between American colleges and\u2062 Chinese universities, establishing consulate-linked Chinese student associations, and printing propaganda in textbooks used in U.S. college language courses.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Related Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/opinion\/the-chinese-communist-party-has-broadly-infiltrated-influential-us-institutions-5453891\">The Chinese Communist Party Has Broadly Infiltrated Influential US Institutions<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/14\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/parent-activist-group-warns-of-chinese-communist-infiltration-into-americas-k-12-classrooms-5426520\">Parent Activist Group Warns of Chinese Communist Infiltration Into \u200bUS K\u201312 Classrooms<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">7\/27\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn a totalitarian country, whether it\u2019s communist [or of] a different ideology, there&#8217;s no \u200dreal separation between civil society and the state,\u201d said Ian Oxnevad, senior fellow for foreign affairs and security studies at the National Association of Scholars, who was a speaker at the event.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. universities\u2063 \u201cmay see themselves as partnering with benign, independent Chinese universities\u2063 or student \u2062groups that\u2014in the mind of the universities\u2014are civil society,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut that&#8217;s not the case on the Chinese side. These are extensions and proxies of the Chinese state. There&#8217;s no real distinction between private and political life,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<h2>From Confucius Institutes to Bilateral Partnerships<\/h2>\n<p>According to Mr. \u2062Oxnevad, Confucius Institutes (CIs)\u2014a Chinese language program attached to over 1,600 foreign universities and schools worldwide\u2014constituted one phase of the CCP\u2019s cognitive warfare.<\/p>\n<p>CIs are funded by\u200b the CCP, which picks and pays for \u2062textbooks and selects and pays Chinese nationals who come to the United States to \u200bteach Chinese \u200dlanguage, culture, and history. A 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Research\/China%27s%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission \u2062said CIs had \u201clongstanding and formal ties\u201d\u200d to the CCP\u2019s \u200cUnited Front\u200d Work Department, an agency\u200d responsible for coordinating the CCP\u2019s influence operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey erode intellectual\u2063 freedom. Oftentimes, American campuses received [money] from China \u2063in order to host\u2062 these Institutes, and the contracts involved are very opaque,\u201d \u2064said \u2062Mr. Oxnevad.<\/p>\n<p>He went \u200con to explain that, due to pushback\u200b from professors, students,\u200c and policymakers, the CI&#8217;s brand \u201cbecame toxic,\u201d which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/new-report-warns-of-confucius-institute-rebrand-4549345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">prompted<\/a> Beijing to shut down and rebrand them.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, \u201cbilateral ties between Chinese universities and American\u2063 universities are forming in different fields that are more specifically scientific oriented\u200b and other programs \u200bof that nature,\u201d said Mr. Oxnevad.<\/p>\n<h2>Vulnerable Technologies<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cMany\u2064 schools in the U.S. are forming bilateral ties with Chinese universities that have military ties to the People&#8217;s Liberation \u2062Army [PLA] in China. These, coincidentally, are American universities\u200b that have some sort of defense-related program \u200cor department involved,\u201d \u200che said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Oxnevad mentioned Alfred University, where the Department of Defense funds hypersonic missile technology.\u2062 The university <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/dod-funding-extremely-concerning-hypersonic-weapons-program-at-china-linked-university-gallagher-5306367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reportedly<\/a> has an ongoing research partnership with \u2062a China-based university that performs defense research for the CCP, as well as the\u2062 continued housing of\u2063 a Confucius Institute \u200bon its New York \u200dcampus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the same individuals involved in the \u200dengineering ceramics program at \u200dAlfred University were also tied to the Confucius Institute,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Prestige is the main motivation for \u2062U.S. colleges that partner \u2062with Chinese universities, \u2064according to Mr. Oxnevad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve seen universities that have whole pages on their websites devoted to international programs \u2026 and they all happen to be in communist China,\u201d he \u2062added.<\/p>\n<h2>Organ Harvesting<\/h2>\n<p>During the webinar, \u200dNina Shea, senior fellow and director for the Center for Religious Freedom at Hudson Institute, pointed out that, while doing research on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-perry-designate-ccp-a-transnational-criminal-organization\/\" title=\"Rep. Perry: Designate CCP a Transnational Criminal Organization\">forced organ harvesting<\/a> in China,\u2063 she found\u200d that many U.S. medical schools and hospitals have \u2062contributed to the Chinese Transplant Center and participated in training about 344 Chinese transplant surgeons\u200d from China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd why did they do it? \u200cWhy\u2064 do they share the skills, and \u2062the knowledge, and \u200dfunding in some cases? Well, a lot of it was to say that their universities were part of this global expanse of enlightenment or technology,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She mentioned this was very naive on the U.S. side as the knowledge transmitted would be of \u201cdual use\u201d given \u200bthe CCP\u2019s industrial-scale murder of prisoners of conscience for their organs.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/china\/absolutely-horrific-us-doctors-group-comes-out-against-ccps-forced-organ-harvesting-5399481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">took a stance<\/a> on organ harvesting in China, urging U.S. authorities \u2064and doctors to\u2063 do what they can to \u200bstop \u200benabling the abuse and calling on the U.S. government and American\u2063 physicians\u2064 to \u200cstop training or educating medical professionals\u200c from China\u2014or any other totalitarian regime\u2014in skills that could be used to commit the abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the world&#8217;s largest organization dedicated to \u200dresearching end-stage heart and lung disease, \u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/international-society-for-heart-and-lung-transplantation-bans-research-papers-from-china_4747161.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stated<\/a> in 2022 that it would no longer accept research \u2063papers &#8220;involving \u200deither organs or tissue from human donors in \u2062the People\u2019s Republic of China&#8221;\u2062 because of the body of evidence of the regime&#8217;s systematic forced organ harvesting from nonconsenting donors.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignleft\"><figcaption>Sir Geoffrey Nice \u200bQC, chair of the China Tribunal, delivers the tribunal&#8217;s judgment in London on June 17, 2019. (Justin Palmer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2019, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/forced-organ-harvesting-in-china-has-taken-place-on-significant-scale-independent-tribunal-finds_2965978.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China \u200dTribunal<\/a>\u2014an independent expert panel chaired by international lawyer\u200c and former prosecutor in the Milosevic trial in The Hague Sir Geoffrey Nice \u2064KC\u2014concluded that the Chinese regime has been committing forced \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-organ-harvesting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">organ harvesting<\/a> from prisoners of conscience for years and \u200don\u200b a substantial \u2064scale.<\/p>\n<p>The tribunal\u2062 also concluded that \u2062detained Falun Gong practitioners \u2063were likely the main source of\u2063 such organs. Uyghurs and other persecuted minorities in northwest China are \u200calso at risk, along with Tibetans and \u2064House\u200c Christians, experts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/un-human-rights-experts-extremely-alarmed-by-forced-organ-harvesting-allegations-in-china_3859031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-falun-gong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falun Gong<\/a>, also known as Falun Dafa, is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccps-infiltration-in-us-colleges-puts-students-crucial-tech-at-risk-researchers\/\" title=\"CCP's infiltration in US colleges jeopardizes students and vital tech: Researchers.\">spiritual discipline involving meditative exercises<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-ccp-leader-jiang-zemin-responsible-for-persecution-of-falun-gong-dies-at-age-96\/\" title=\"Former CCP Leader Jiang Zemin, Responsible for Persecution of Falun Gong, Dies at Age 96\">moral teachings based<\/a> on three core principles: truthfulness, compassion, \u200dand tolerance. The communist regime has brutally persecuted the \u200bpractice since July 1999; millions in China have been\u200b detained in prisons, labor camps, and other facilities, with hundreds of thousands tortured \u2062while incarcerated, according to the\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/faluninfo.net\/key-statistics-related-to-falun-gong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falun \u200cDafa Information Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Exporting \u200dRepression<\/h2>\n<p>Infiltration at American campuses has \u200calso enabled the CCP to commit transnational repression\u2014a tool authoritarian regimes use\u200b to silence dissent overseas\u2014according to Cynthia Sun, a researcher at the Falun \u200dDafa Information Center, who was also a speaker at the event.<\/p>\n<p>She mentioned a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/beijing-exports-its-religious-suppression-to-us-textbooks-report-5299312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> by\u200d the Falun Dafa Information Center titled \u201cSurveillance, Slander, \u200band Censorship,\u201d which surveyed dozens of university campuses across the United States with the\u200d presence of Falun\u200b Gong\u2064 to examine how the Chinese regime&#8217;s persecution is affecting adherents of the faith in the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ms. Sun, Falun Gong adherents who host or \u2063participate in events to raise awareness on \u2064the over two-decade-long persecution\u2014such as hosting film screenings, art exhibitions, or petition signing\u2014face \u201ca lot of reprisals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As adherents include \u200dsecond-generation Chinese or international students who still have family\u200d back in China, such reprisals often consist of harassment of their family members in China or threatening to harm them.<\/p>\n<p>A fifth of \u200dthe\u200d survey respondents said\u2063 they felt somewhat or very uncomfortable \u2063self-identifying as a Falun Gong \u2064adherent or speaking about it in class\u2062 due to such reprisals, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough controlling activities of Falun Gong practitioners, Hong Kong activists, and other ethnic minorities in \u2064China, it&#8217;s possible for them\u2064 [the CCP] to also bring the \u2062surveillance, the slander, the censorship, to the United States\u200c of America,\u201d said Ms. Sun.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignleft\"><figcaption>A Falun Gong banner is seen in\u200c front of the Low Memorial Library\u2063 at Columbia University in 2018. (Courtesy of Falun Dafa Information Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One case occurred at the University \u2062of Pennsylvania (UPenn), said Ms. Sun, where\u2062 the Falun Dafa club\u2062 co-hosted a screening of the documentary \u201cIn the Name of Confucius,\u201d which spotlights ties between Confucius Institutes and \u2063the Chinese \u2064regime. The case is also \u2063cited in<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Hudson Institute have cautioned against the Chinese regime&#8217;s attempts to &#8220;indoctrinate and spy&#8221; on students in American universities. 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