Communist China's War Inside America by Brian T. Kennedy

Author:Brian T. Kennedy [Kennedy, Brian T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: International Relations, Privacy & Surveillance, Communism; Post-Communism & Socialism, Political Ideologies, Political Science, General
ISBN: 9781641771603
Google: b7SRzQEACAAJ
Goodreads: 55080960
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2020-01-15T07:32:30+00:00

CONFUCIUS INSTITUTES

A key component of Chinese strategy is the mainstreaming of Chinese cultural norms into American society, especially among young Americans. Chinese intelligence has made substantial investments in American universities by setting up more than one hundred Confucius Institutes that are designed to spread knowledge of the Mandarin language, Confucius philosophy, and Chinese culture. In reality, they are vehicles almost wholly operated by the Chinese Communist Party to recruit sympathetic Americans, shape American opinion about the Chinese government, and exert pressure on the universities to suppress any lectures, student activism, or scholars who might be critical of the Chinese Communist Party or the P.R.C. in general.

These institutes complement the Chinese Students and Scholars Associations on American campuses. Both are used to extend the influence of the CCP beyond the 370,000 Chinese students attending these universities. Their ability to facilitate exchanges between the P.R.C. and American academic institutions – especially research universities – is critical to the operation of this intelligence network. They provide cover by offering lucrative grants to compliant American scholars whose scientific research they might want to access or the ability to sponsor P.R.C.-based students and scholars who will attend conferences where they can form professional relationships with their American counterparts.

The technological and scientific piece of this aside, there is also much to be gained by influencing the purely academic side as well. After all, the foreign policy and national security infrastructure of Washington, D.C., is shaped by the schools of international relations, themselves sympathetic to China and the globalist world view. It is not out of charity that the P.R.C. makes strategic donations to key departments in universities around the country. Bloomberg estimates direct P.R.C. grant-making at more than $1 billion, which does not even account for Chinese corporations looking to shape the debate on campus by making targeted “donations” to those many think tanks in Washington, D.C. that are filled with retired senior U.S. military officers and diplomats who form a pro-globalist chorus all of their own. Expenditures to project what China calls its use of “soft power” range as high as $10 billion a year, by some accounts.

Chinese students and the Confucius Institutes are one aspect of the problem. Another is the Thousand Talents Plan.

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