The Chinese Authority in the U.S.

 

The Chinese Consulates' Secret Mission

  • Monitor Chinese Americans' activities (1)
  • Cancel passport renewal & deny visa applications (1) (2)
  • Arrest rights activists' family members in China. (3)
  • "Return to China promptly or commit suicide." (4)
  • Control Chinese Student & Scholar Association
    • Welcome Communist Party leaders & block protesters (5)
    • threaten Tibetan student leaders (6)(7)
  • Block local activities on human rights in China (10)
  • Warn U.S. officials & NGOs (8)
    • Not to mention human rights abuses in China.
    • Not to support Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, Uighurs


Steal of Intellectual Property (9)

  • Recruit successful scholars into the "Thousand Talents Program." (11)(12)
    • Run shadow Labs in China
    • Get fundings from both U.S. and China.
    • Charles Lieber, Chair of Harvard Univ. Chemistry Dept, arrest in 2020 (13)
  • Fund research programs in top universities to benefit Huawei
    • Huawei says to spend more than $300 million/year on universities. (14)
    • MIT & Oxford Univ. cut ties with Huawei in 2019 (15)
  • Send spies as students or visiting scholars.
    • Form the CCP chapters in universities or companies
      • UC Davis 2017 - a CCP chapter formed by visiting Chinese scholars (16)
    • These spies lied about their affiliation with the Chinese Military. (17)
      • Medical: Juan Tang (UC Davis), Xin Wang (UCSF), Chen Song (Stanford)
      • Artificial Intelligence: Kaikai Zhao (Indiana Univ)


Influence successful Americans

  • Trips to China through sister cities, Rotary Clubs, chamber of commerce, etc. (18)(19)
  • Attract investments to China - money sponsors the CCP. (20)
  • Make Americans lobby for the CCP in the U.S. and endorse political candidates that the CCP favors. (21)
  • Medical tourism - organ transplants (22)(23)
  • Honey traps (24) (25)


References

  1. https://www.axios.com/chinas-consulates-do-a-lot-more-than-spy-2c7c5e40-6bb8-4dfc-a704-f6eff28a9081.html
  2. https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-china-built-an-army-of-influence-agents-in-the-us
  3. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/21/an-empty-seat-a-broken-heart/
  4. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/28/fbi-arrests-5-in-alleged-operation-fox-hunt-plot-to-pressure-citizens-to-return-to-china.html
  5. https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/
  6. https://www.freetibet.org/news-media/na/death-threats-against-pro-tibetan-university-student-canada-were-likely-organised
  7. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/angry-over-campus-speech-by-uighur-activist-students-in-canada-contact-chinese-consulate-film-presentation/2019/02/14/a442fbe4-306d-11e9-ac6c-14eea99d5e24_story.html
  8. https://faluninfo.net/international-pressure/
  9. https://ge.usembassy.gov/fbi-director-chinas-economic-espionage-threatens-free-societies-july-9/
  10. https://faluninfo.net/a-global-campaign-of-harassment-intimidation-and-violence/
  11. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/chinas-lavish-funds-lured-us-scientists-what-did-it-get-in-return.html
  12. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2019-11-18%20PSI%20Staff%20Report%20-%20China's%20Talent%20Recruitment%20Plans.pdf
  13. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related
  14. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-tech-china-usa/huawei-says-to-spend-more-than-300-million-a-year-in-funding-for-universities-idUSKCN1VO0PP
  15. https://hub.packtpub.com/elite-us-universities-including-mit-and-stanford-break-off-partnerships-with-huawei-and-zte-amidst-investigations-in-the-us/
  16. https://qz.com/1134705/chinas-communist-party-briefly-had-a-chapter-at-the-university-of-california-davis/
  17. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/researchers-charged-visa-fraud-after-lying-about-their-work-china-s-people-s-liberation-army
  18. https://business.utah.gov/news/china-rolls-red-carpet-utah-delegation/
  19. https://sistercities.org/people/cindy-elliott/
  20. https://challengesweface.org/the-great-wall-street/
  21. https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/Barbara-Boxer-China-foreign-agent-Uighur-Muslims-15865511.php
  22. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Rose-Pak-SF-political-powerhouse-dies-9230594.php
  23. http://www.stoporganharvesting.org/
  24. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-csis-right-to-worry-about-chinese-spies
  25. https://www.axios.com/china-spy-california-politicians-9d2dfb99-f839-4e00-8bd8-59dec0daf589.html

 

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