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  • FBI director: Chinese spies 'a whole-of-society' threat to US...

    02/13/2018 5:17:47 PM PST · by caww · 92 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | Feb 13, 2018 | by Joel Gehrke
    Chinese spies are spreading throughout the United States as part of “a whole-of-society threat,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told lawmakers Tuesday. The problem is exacerbated by the “naivete” of U.S. academics who don’t recognize the intelligence collectors among them. “They’re exploiting the very open research-and-development environment that we have, which we all revere, but they’re taking advantage of it,” he said. “So, one of the things we’re trying to do is view the China threat as not just a whole-of-government threat but a whole-of-society threat on their end and I think it’s going to take a whole of-society response by...
  • US universities urged to shut Confucius Institutes

    02/13/2018 8:38:28 AM PST · by ilovesarah2012 · 48 replies
    sigh er education.com ^ | May 2, 2017 | Elizabeth Redden
    More than 100 American colleges and universities house Confucius Institutes, centres of Chinese language and cultural teaching funded and staffed in part with instructors screened by a Chinese government-affiliated entity known as Hanban. The Confucius Institutes may seem to many to be benign outposts offering cultural events programming and non-credit courses in introductory Chinese, calligraphy or Tai Chi, but for nearly as long as the Confucius Institutes have been around – more than 10 years now – they’ve been controversial.