Anonymous ID: 48dbde Feb. 7, 2020, 10 a.m. No.8062625   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Chinese Communists Infiltrating U.S. Universities

Written by Alex Newman

 

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Chinese Communists Infiltrating U.S. Universities

From FreedomProject Media:

 

Lawmakers and academics in the Lone Star State are on edge after the mass-murdering Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was exposed trying to buy influence and shape the narrative at the University of Texas and other American educational institutions. Indeed, operating through front groups, the regime in Beijing is now making its influence felt in education worldwide. Critics say it must be exposed and stopped.

 

The latest shoe to drop in the controversy over Communist Chinese infiltration of U.S. schools came last week. Under pressure from lawmakers and pro-liberty voices, the University of Texas at Austin announced that it would not be accepting funding from the CCP-linked “China-United States Exchange Foundation,” a registered foreign agent known for trying to spread the murderous regime's propaganda.

 

In a letter to Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), UT-Austin President Greg Fenves vowed that the school would “ensure that the receipt of outside funding does not create potential conflicts of interest or place limits on academic freedom and the robust exchange of ideas.” Fenves expressed concerns that accepting funds from the CUSEF would, indeed, limit academic freedom and ideas.

 

In fact, even before lawmakers got involved, the CUSEF was already under fire by university faculty for its role in promoting Communist Chinese propaganda on campus at an event in November. And the outfit is funded by “a high-ranking Chinese government official with close ties to a sprawling Chinese Communist Party apparatus that handles influence operations abroad,” according to media reports. It is led by another ChiCom operative.

 

https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/28061-chinese-communists-infiltrating-u-s-universities

Anonymous ID: 48dbde Feb. 7, 2020, 10:01 a.m. No.8062642   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2675 >>2746

Communist propaganda has infiltrated more than 100 US colleges, posing as Chinese language institute

Over the past few decades, colleges have acquired an unfortunate yet accurate reputation of promoting anti-American values. From squashing campus free speech rights to condemning America’s actions and policies, many college administrators and professors have painted an ugly portrait of Americanism to impressionable students while heralding the “superior” values of other societies.

 

It appears the Chinese government is joining forces with college leaders in this disturbing effort.

 

According to Politico, China is quietly infiltrating our colleges and sprinkling in communist propaganda through a program called the Confucius Institute. College administrators like to deny or overlook the program’s sinister motives, arguing that it helps students become global citizens.

 

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is one of the latest schools to open a branch, joining a list of about 100 campuses in the U.S. and 500-plus campuses worldwide that host the Confucius Institute. Nancy Gutierrez, UNC-Charlotte Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, believes the program will “broaden the University’s outreach and support for language instruction and cultural opportunities in the Charlotte community,” according to a press release.

 

However, Chinese government officials have publicly admitted, and even boasted, about the program’s deceptive nature.

 

As Li Changchun, a standing member of the Politburo in Beijing observed back in 2011, “The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for expanding our culture abroad. It has made an important contribution toward improving our soft power. The ‘Confucius’ brand has a natural attractiveness. Using the excuse of teaching Chinese language, everything looks reasonable and logical.”

 

In a 2010 People’s Daily article, Chinese minister of propaganda Liu Yunshan championed the establishment of more Confucius Institutes to “[c]oordinate the efforts of overseas and domestic propaganda, [and] further create a favorable international environment for [China].”

 

Moreover, the program’s top leadership is dominated by Chinese government officials, including representatives from China’s propaganda bureau.

 

The Confucius Institute has been accused by critics of silencing human rights issues through self-censorship and direct intervention. Once established, the program’s leaders reportedly have gained an uncontrollable influence over campus activities.

 

While some organizations of students and professors have protested the program’s existence and influence on campuses, Confucius Institutes continue to spread like a virus, feeding off of colleges’ economic desperation and superficial desire to be diverse and inclusive. Universities have handed the reins to their Chinese language and culture programs over to Chinese communists, sacrificing what remains of their values and principles along the way.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/communist-propaganda-has-infiltrated-more-than-100-us-colleges-posing-as-chinese-language-institute

Anonymous ID: 48dbde Feb. 7, 2020, 10:08 a.m. No.8062730   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Feds: U. of Kansas Prof. Funneled Research to Communist China

 

Professor Feng Tao of the University of Kansas was charged by federal authorities with two counts of wire fraud and one count of program fraud for attempting to funnel publicly-funded research to the Chinese government.

 

According to a report by Campus Reform, a professor at the University of Kansas was charged over his participation in a program run by China’s communist government that was designed to transfer American research to China.

 

A lengthy indictment accuses Professor Feng Tao of working with China’s Communist Party to unlawfully transfer publicly-funded research from the University of Kansas to China.

 

“From in or about 2015 through in or about 2019, in the District of Kansas and elsewhere, the defendant, FENG TAO, did knowingly, and with intent to defraud, devise and intend to devise, a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money and property by means of materially false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, and by omissions and concealment of material facts with a duty to disclose,” the indictment reads.

 

Tao was a member of the Changjiang Professorship, an initiative designed by the Chinese government allegedly for the purpose of stealing the intellectual property of the American universities. The initiative offered “professorships” to students and professors in the United States that were willing to participate in their plan to steal research.

 

Tao failed not only to inform the University of Kansas that he had been awarded the Changjiang Professorship but also that he was a full professor at Fuzhou University in China.

 

Breitbart News reported on Tuesday that four researchers at the University of Florida were forced to resign after it was revealed that they, too, were feeding publicly-funded research to China.

 

Stay tuned to Breitbart News for more updates on this story.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/01/23/feds-u-of-kansas-prof-funneled-research-to-communist-china/

 

Arrested Jan 23 2020