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Are European academics helping China's military?
dw via msn ^ | 5/18/2022 | Naomi Conrad, Esther Felden, Sandra Petersmann

Posted on 05/19/2022 11:02:54 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19

he promotional video for China's elite National University of Defense Technology is set to dramatic music. In quick succession, soldiers run behind tanks, guns blazing, followed by uniformed NUDT professors addressing attentive students.

"We dedicate our lives to the modernization of the national defense army," a narrator intones.

The NUDT is the alma mater of a Chinese student who subsequently did his PhD in Germany, conducting research that may have had potential military applications.

Yet the German professor who supervised the student's PhD readily admitted in a recent phone call that he had never given his student's military affiliation much thought.

A note of regret crept into the professor's voice as he recalled the friendly and "outstanding" student, whom he had been proud to host at his institute of computer sciences in a small university town. He said he had been sorry to see the student return to China once his Chinese scholarship ran out.

Upon going back to China, the student took a job with the NUDT.

His former German host knows little about the exact nature of the man's research. "When you're at NUDT," the professor told DW, "you're not allowed to talk about your work.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp

1 posted on 05/19/2022 11:02:54 AM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

We have hundreds of examples of academia taking bribes from China in return for technology that is proprietary to the US military or US companies.


2 posted on 05/19/2022 11:05:42 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (We are being played by forces most do not understand)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It’s not just academia. We have had politicians, like Bill Clinton selling our missile secrets to China. So, politicians are the most crooked traitors of all.


3 posted on 05/19/2022 11:18:07 AM PDT by adorno
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To: adorno

Bill Clinton would sell his mother for keys to the executive restroom.


4 posted on 05/19/2022 11:23:17 AM PDT by entropy12 (Trump & MAGA are the only way to keep USA viable.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The better question is: “when have European academics not been helping communists?”


5 posted on 05/19/2022 11:31:29 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: RomanSoldier19

Gleefully sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Being academic theses days pretty amount to being clueless.
But yeah, I digress......


6 posted on 05/19/2022 11:38:12 AM PDT by cranked
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