Posted on 08/01/2019 8:13:04 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
American graduates of the prestigious Yenching Academy, a one- to two-year master's degree program housed at Beijing's elite Peking University, are being approached and questioned by the FBI about the time they spent in China. In the last two years, at least five Yenching graduates have been approached by agents to gather intelligence on the program and to ascertain whether they have been co-opted by Chinese espionage efforts.
Brian Kim is one of them. Five months ago, Kim received a call from an unfamiliar number. "It was a person who claimed to be an FBI agent, and I immediately thought it was a scam call," Kim recalls.
Now beginning his second year at Yale Law School, Kim was able to verify the agent's identity with the local FBI office in New Haven, Conn., the next day. He arranged for two FBI agents to meet him at a coffee shop near Yale's campus, where, over the next hour, they grilled him on his personal and academic history.
I was thinking of going to language school in China to learn Chinese. Guess I’m not doing that now.
Is yenching illegal now? Next it will be rolfing or fraginating.
Disclaimer: The above statement is not a conspiracy theory!
Is NPR trying to warn the communists and their American recruits that the FBI is on to them?
I wouldn’t tell the FBI it was raining if we were standing in it.
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[”Foreign intelligence services have increasingly chosen to target and recruit academics, researchers, and others to conduct activities on behalf of foreign governments. Past investigations have identified Chinese universities as locations where such targeting sometimes occurs,” according to the FBI statement. “These investigations have shown that foreign governments and intelligence services often seek to identify and develop relationships with U.S. students, scholars, and researchers who can help them gain access to information and persons that fulfill the foreign government’s international intelligence agenda.”]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Junping
I expect CIA case officers are spending a lot of time looking over the 300,000-strong Chinese student population stateside. In a lot of cases, it’s just a friendly chat* that is renewed once they reach senior positions at home. Given the numerical disparity, I expect it’s a lot harder for China’s Ministry of State Security to recruit American students than it is for the CIA to recruit Chinese students.
* As I understand it, the agents recruited can be super-loyal on the surface to whatever governments they are spying against. So in many cases, any moles unearthed turn out to be people no one suspected.
I have always suspected the Chinese students were spies
They probbky have spies in the FBI who would then leak to China to off you if you wanted to spy for the US against China...
Sometimes they are so obvious. A dum broad friend of mine in college was into Jesus, bless her heart, and she invited these Chinese couple over to church. I questioned them and their story of meeting each other sounded so scripted and fake, and they obviously were very nervous about my line of questioning.
It was so obvious they were spies but whatever.
Glad to see the FBI doing its job right, for once. Debriefing American students who have studied in communist countries has been a standard practice since at least the 1950’s, if not earlier.
Leave it to NPR to be surprised, I say, “surprised”. In reality, they want to expose this FBI SOP and stop it. Wonder why?
There are TENS OF THOUSANDS of Chinese spies living HERE IN THE U.S., in NICE homes BANKROLLED BY CHINA that WE CITIZENS COULD NEVER AFFORD.
And to anyone who thinks these are just RICH Chinese people who love the United States and want to live here, just ask yourself THIS question?:
Would China just simply ALLOW their citizens to leave China UNLESS THERE WAS SOMETHING IN IT FOR THEM?
These people are SPIES, gathering intel and engaging in PROPERTY THEFT on behalf of the Chinese government!
You wanna talk about VISA FRAUD and MATERNITY HOTELS?? There are HUNDREDS of them in California CHURNING OUT ANCHOR BABIES AT A MUCH GREATER RATE THAN WHITES.
The PROBLEM is, the COMMIE State of California seeks to ASSIST China in helping them spread their COMMUNIST goals and message here in the U.S. so this MADNESS isn't going to STOP!
FBI where are you? I can point you to an entire COMMUNITY in So. Cal. that is damn near OWNED by the Chinese government, with baby birthing factories 24/7 that no one seems to give a damn about!
Oh yeah and F China, too. We should’ve bombed them into oblivion 30 years ago. Failure to do so is going to cost us our country. NOT KIDDING. It is happening as we speak. When these thousands upon thousands of anchor babies of today grow up, they will have REAL power and the means to totally sabotage our country.
Yep! IAC, there are many certified yenching academies in the DC/VA/MD area...
I was taking Chinese at the Confucius Institute at our university but the feds shut it down. At least for this one, a bunch of BS that they are spies. Yes we got a certain amount of pro-Chinese propaganda, but you could just ignore it and the teachers themselves weren’t really pushing it on you.
I’ve also studied Korean at Korean churches the past few years and that all is underwritten by the Korean government just like the Confucius Institute, but it just isn’t as obvious from the outside. I’ve gotten hit with a lot more pro-South Korean propaganda than the Confucius institute did. But that goes with the territory—they’re paying the bills—it doesn’t both me. And I am very pro-South Korea anyway.
Ironically, when the FBI shows up to interrogate me they will find out I want to study Chinese because I like visiting Taiwan (don’t care for Mainland China).
This is where I was thinking of learning Chinese, partly because it is located in a very beautiful area of China (watch video):
https://www.omeidachinese.com/?utm_source=Youtube&utm_medium=Monkey%20Abroad
A long time ago I knew someone who was looking at several trips a year to China for business... He found an old retired Chinese-American gentleman who taught him (in his own home) to be reasonably conversational in Chinese... Fairly cheaply too...
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