Posted on 04/16/2021 8:31:33 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A student group backed by the Chinese embassy is pressuring Cornell University to ignore faculty and student opposition and push forward with a multimillion-dollar partnership with the regime.
The Cornell chapter of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) is circulating a petition calling on Cornell to launch a controversial dual degree program bankrolled by the Chinese Ministry of Education. The group dismisses allegations of Chinese human-rights abuses as an attempt to "deliberately discredit and attack China."...
Students frequently launch petition campaigns—but unlike most student groups, the CSSA has the official backing of a foreign government. CSSA is the "ONLY Chinese student organization officially supported by [the] Embassy of People's Republic of China at Cornell University," according to its website. There are more than 150 CSSA branches on American universities across the country. It is unclear what role the Chinese embassy played in this petition, but Beijing has a history of using CSSA branches to influence campus discourse. Chinese consulate officials have ordered CSSA chapters to disseminate Chinese Communist Party propaganda on social media and have encouraged the groups to denounce anti-China views on campus, according to Foreign Policy. The group's Australian chapter allegedly spied on students on behalf of the Chinese government...
"If they can shape in some way the way that Cornell students think about the CCP, then they can shape the future of America," Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Washington Free Beacon.
The CSSA launched its petition after the Cornell student assembly and faculty senate passed resolutions in March demanding the university reconsider its plans for a dual degree program with Peking University. The students and the professors said a partnership with a government that is inflicting genocide and a university that jails its students violates Cornell's values...
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I wonder how many of those folks are reservists in the People’s Liberation Army.
Why aren’t these active foreign agents expelled from the country? Why aren’t the US citizens who are helping them under arrest?
Rhetorical questions.
So, seared at the back of the local chop suey place, in a venerated corner, “Don Ho” tells his agent: “I have a deal that you won’t refuse ....”
Here’s a thought, why doesn’t China launch a dual degree program at a university in it’s OWN country? And keep their students in China?
Expanding the Belt and Road Trojan Horse to Academia.
The CCP will own Cornell soon.
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