by Charles “Sam” Faddis at And Magazine
Reuters Is reporting that Stanford professors are urging the United States to end its hunt for Chinese spies within academia. The reason is, of course, racism. Strangely enough most of the Chinese spies we catch turn out to be Chinese – that’s not common sense apparently. That is – according to the big brains at Stanford – “racial profiling.”
Stanford’s opposition should come as no great surprise to anyone who has followed the wide-ranging and very successful efforts of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to penetrate our institutions of higher learning. Stanford, like many of our top schools, was bought off by the Chinese a long time ago.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, Stanford has accepted more funds from China since 2013 than all but three other schools in the U.S. During the period in question, Stanford reported $58.1 million in China-based gifts and contracts, according to an analysis by Bloomberg. Stanford has only reported the names of the donors for a tiny fraction of this amount. Almost of all it, despite Department of Education requirements, came from sources, which to this day remain anonymous.
Stanford accepted all these funds despite warnings from the United States government about the growing influence of China on American campuses. In 2018, the FBI issued a report indicating some foreign scholars on American campuses “seek to illicitly or illegitimately acquire U.S. academic research and information to advance their scientific, economic, and military development goals.” The report noted the Chinese government “has historically sponsored economic espionage, and China is the world’s principal infringer of intellectual property.”
Law enforcement warned particularly about Confucius Institutes, which allow Chinese nationals access to American students and intellectual property. The institutes are funded largely by an entity that reports to the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee. Confucius Institutes spread Chinese propaganda and disinformation particularly regarding Tibet, Tiananmen, Xinjiang, the Falun Gong, and other human rights issues in China.
Despite these warnings, Stanford opened a Confucius Institute on campus in 2012. In exchange, Stanford received $4 million in Chinese money.
Recently, Stanford University rolled out a new center hosting scholars, guests, and programs affiliated with groups backed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The Stanford Center on China’s Economy and Institutions opened in February of 2021. The center operates under the umbrella of the Freeman Spogli Institute, a foreign policy consortium tied to Peking University, which is run by former Chinese spymaster Qiu Shuiping. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute designated Peking University a “high risk” university for its partnerships with military research programs on nuclear technology:…
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