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September 21, 2007

Chinese Embassies Directing Student-Operatives

 

 

The Chinese Consulates and embassies have caught sending letters to Chinese students in the U.S. to write the United States Senate and House of Representatives on behalf of the Communist Chinese government, but is this where such illegal activity ends? Not even close.

  

Video courtesy of leelin 

 

As with any agent, only those students who are considered “trustworthy” by the Communist regime to remain loyal are permitted to study abroad amidst the influences of the non-Communist world. In addition to years and years of political indoctrination, students are selected after intense political and social scrutiny, which includes a thorough background investigation into their family, friends, psychological and emotional profile, religious connections, and anything else which might indicate political disloyalty to the extremist dictatorship.  

 

Students in fact are an important part of the Chinese strategy for collecting information and affecting policy in the  countries in which they are attending school. As the story explains, these students are being used to unlawfully influence the policies of a foreign government by directly petitioning it (a strategy that other countries like Mexico also use). Chinese students also await orders to carry out other political operations where they live, including assisting direct leftwing political activity and in projects which may indirectly assist leftwing goals, such as participation in gang-related criminal activity.

 

 In addition to the use of Chinese students as political change-agents, another example is the well-known use by the Communist government of graduate students for gaining access to various open-source R&D linked to classified technology from various angles sufficient to outline and define the purpose and type of classified technology under development (and whether it warrants deeper penetration).

 

A key player in all of this is the Chinese Students and Scholars Friendship Association, considered by many a front group in propagating and maintaining CCP control over its foreign students.   

 

Another purpose of these networks is to export repression of Chinese ex-pats and exact revenge on dissidents, many of whom are under constant threat of deadly reprisals that often include among the victims any family members.

 

One article in 2005 points to information provided by defectors that further raised alarms:

 

A large network of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) spies is rampant in the U.S., say members of Congress, Ivy League academics, and two defecting CCP officials.

 

The spies aim not only to steal military and technology secrets but also to influence, repress, and even control the ideals and actions of Americans.

 

In defecting in Australia early in June, CCP officials Mr. Hao Fengiun and Mr. Chen Yonglin sparked a string of headlines, first in Australia then in Canada, about a massive network of CCP spies in Western countries that could far exceed previously held estimates of the problem.

 

 

The article goes on to detail three areas of CCP spy influence.

 

This month’s incident of the (most recent) Clinton fundraising fiasco with Chinese operative Hsu is only a tiny pixel in a matrix of a much larger pernicious strategy that uses chiefly students followed by Chinese national “business” leaders to bring to heal what the Communists in China consider their greatest threat, which is also the greatest example of liberty and prosperity and proof of Communist ideological vapidity anywhere on the globe:  The United States. Even if such a strategy were only effective 10% of the time, given the sheer number of Chinese nationals in the United States at present and some of the sensitive positions they hold, there still exists a significant danger. Therefore it is important that we maintain a number of those currently holding Chinese passports that can be effectively monitored and managed and that such nationals not be allowed to act at the behest of their government while here. It should be our desire to offer every foreign student the opportunity to experience all that an American experience can offer, and that includes the freedom to explore new ideas and challenge old, without fear of persecution by their home countries. It also involves protecting that American experience from extinction by a foreign power.  

 

 

Posted by Martin at September 21, 2007 05:47 PM

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