A local example of chicom power is Iowa State University in Ames. The university and the town is beholden to chicom money. The chicom undergrads are mostly the spoiled rich princelings of communist party officials. You can spot them driving their exotic sports cars and flashing their wallets full of $100 bills. They’re mostly spoiled, stupid, entitled, and lazy. They are the ones paying full price tuition.
The smart ones are the grad students. In a lot of the STEM classes they do a lot of the work. They teach labs, grade papers, tutor, etc. While there are certainly chicom spies in the mix, I think many are probably happy to be out of China to escape the persecution. For instance, I’ve seen evangelical Chinese Christian churches open up in Ames that weren’t there 10 years ago.
If anyone is going to sell out to the chicoms, I would bet on primarily American professors, administrators, politicians, business leaders, etc.
Oh, make no mistake. It’s the American profs doing most of the selling as they are most of the instructors at this point. The Harvard chem department chair was American...but totally sold out to the chicoms. Hope dude does jail but not optimistic there.
How that might change going forward is another matter.
But every major academic institution is beholden to them.
And nobody who works there will be allowed to say ANYthing negative about them. Ever. And it stands to reason that IF the paymaster tells you to put out a good word or two...you’ll do that too.
Take the king’s money, do the king’s bidding.
No different than a prof at TAMU speaking out against one of their big donors.