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This March, Stanford’s President, Dr. Jonathan Levin, received a letter from the Select Committee on the CCP detailing the security risks China poses to STEM research. For years, concerns about Chinese espionage have quietly persisted at Stanford. Throughout our investigation, professors, students, and researchers readily recounted their experiences of Chinese spying, yet they declined to speak publicly. One student who experienced espionage firsthand was too fearful to recount their story, even via encrypted messaging. “The risk is too high,” they explained. Transnational repression, $64 million in Chinese funding, and allegations of racial profiling have contributed to a pervasive culture of silence at Stanford and beyond.
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After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, we can confirm that the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. In short, “there are Chinese spies at Stanford.”
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Speaking at a China Town Hall event, the former U.S. National Security Council’s Director for China, Matthew Turpin, characterized the threat of Chinese espionage at Stanford:
"The Chinese state incentivizes students to violate conflicts of commitment and interest, ensuring they bring back technology otherwise restricted by export controls.”
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A China expert, familiar with Stanford, who wished to remain anonymous, confirmed that of the approximately 1,129 Chinese International students on campus, a select number are actively reporting to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). China’s 2017 National Intelligence Law mandates that all Chinese citizens support and cooperate with state intelligence work regardless of location.
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One Chinese national at Stanford spoke to us on this very issue under conditions of anonymity:
“Many Chinese [nationals] have handlers; they [CCP] want to know everything that's going on at Stanford. This is a very normal thing. They just relay the information they have.”
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Another Stanford student shared an incident involving their professor's encounter with suspected Chinese espionage. According to the student, the professor recounted needing to schedule a meeting with a Chinese student. When the student declined, citing a mysterious reason, the Professor asked why. The student replied, “You know why.” The professor continued to inquire, only to receive the cryptic response, “I cannot tell you that.” Finally, the professor revealed that the student admitted to meeting a CCP handler.
This issue has been under discussion at Stanford since 2019, as highlighted by a Stanford Daily article that featured interviews with anonymous Chinese nationals. One Chinese student remarked, “Whether peer monitoring exists at Stanford is moot; it’s the possibility that keeps people cautious about what they say. If it exists, I’m not going to be surprised.”
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Comparing things like Libgen with this issue is a strange take if I may say, even more as it seems to portray China as an open country.
China has revised its own espionage law in 2023, which is not only considerably harsher than any Western laws but also extremely opaque, meaning it leaves much room for interpretation.
Moreover, soon after the new regulations took effect, the Chinese government even launched a national campaign with rewards of up to 500,000 renminbi (just over EUR 61,000, or USD 69,000)) for anyone reporting suspicious individuals or suspected espionage activities.
Red banners have started appearing on Chinese streets, posters with a hotline number for reporting suspicious individuals could now be found on public transport. There have also been arrests since, e.g., simply for conducting market research, and often the detainees' laywers didn't know what their clients are accused of.
You'll find a lot of reliable sources for that, one is here.. It's analysis from 2023.
Oh no the poor foreign nazi government orgs... Eat shit cia terrorists. China killed most of your cia agents in 2012. Every dead cia nazi = 1000 people live.
How is stealing academic works online via in person different?
I don’t see a point in responding to the article you just googled and paraphrased about China’s own law. What does that have to do with this at all.
I suggest you read the linked article. It's really disturbing how many people here on Lemmy are downplaying the Chinese government's crimes.
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Every country and field wants to advance. An individual wants to get their hands on what they can for their research as does a country. It’s disturbing how you people call out every little thing Chinese do but never the other way.
It’s even wilder looking at your profile, you’re clearly Sinophobic, no wonder you will receive people ~~downplaying Chinese governments crimes~~ pushing against your nonsense.
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We really gonna this phobia circle jerk?
This is a national security issue, go to China try to do something similar.