by Lawrence A. Franklin
December 20, 2023 at 5:00 am
China’s war against the West also includes a massive effort to steal intellectual property from US and European research laboratories. This dimension of China’s war is run by the CPC’s United Front Work Department. The feel-good name of this CCP agency is the Chinese People’s Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries. Its purpose is to facilitate the transfer of vital technologies and expertise from the West to China by creating an atmosphere of cooperation. This CCP front group’s objective is to implement a global approach to acquire any defense-related data that might serve China’s goals.
Beijing’s intelligence collection activities include the “Thousand Talents Program,” which recruits American scientists by offering research grants to study in China, and by using Confucius Institutes on university campuses to recruit talented students. The Thousand Talents Program ostensibly demonstrates to faculty and impressionable students the superiority of Chinese culture and why it is praiseworthy to embrace China’s accomplishments. In reality, these CCP institutions seem, like TikTok, to be indoctrination devices, to program academics to denigrate America and support China,
An effort to close down Confucius Institutes in the US has apparently been ineffective: they simply changed their name and resumed operation. They are now also infiltrating children’s education, from high schools down to kindergarten.
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