House Committee Demands Colleges Drop Chinese Government Scholarship Program
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is developing and acquiring key technologies through both legal and illegal means.”
This needs to happen. China has been using our system of higher education for nefarious purposes.
Campus Reform reports:
House committee demands colleges cut ties with Chinese government scholarship program
The House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party has sent letters to seven universities pushing them to cease facilitating a scholarship for Chinese graduate students.
The China Scholarship Council mandates that participating students return to China for two years after studying in the United States, which causes the committee to label it a “nefarious mechanism” for the Chinese Communist Party.
The scholarship council is directly run by the Chinese government.
The committee sent the letters to the University of Notre Dame, Dartmouth College, Temple University, the University of Tennessee, the University of California (UC) at Davis, UC Irvine, and UC Riverside on July 8.
The letters say that China is using the scholarships to steal American technology, and urge the schools to end their relationship with the program.
“The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is developing and acquiring key technologies through both legal and illegal means, including investments in private industries, talent recruitment programs, directing academic and research relationships and collaboration for its military gain, forced technology transfer, intelligence gathering, and outright theft,” the message says.
“One of the nefarious mechanisms that the CCP relies on is the China Scholarship Council (CSC). CSC purports to be a joint scholarship program between U.S. and Chinese institutions,” it continues. “[H]owever, in reality it is a CCP-managed technology transfer effort that exploits U.S. institutions and directly supports China’s military and scientific growth.”
According to the letters, one requirement for sponsored students in the program is “to submit a report to [People’s Republic of China] embassies or consulates every three months, detailing their academic progress, laboratory work, research outputs, and publications.”
Under President Trump, the federal government has grown increasingly concerned about the relationship between China and American colleges and universities.
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Comments
djt did allow ccp to acquire nvida chips albeit not the newest generation
I think djt made a mistake with this
Foreign students should not be more than 3% of the student population. Their majors should be limited to non-technical majors with the exception of medical degrees. There should be no MS programs for foreign students outside of the medical degrees.
How doe you arrive at 3%? Just curious.
Don’t urge. Declare china to not to be a friend, remove their most favorite trade status if this hasn’t already done, ban chinese students from US colleges, chinese grants to US college, US government money sent to chinese institutions, and chinese investments or purchase of US companies or land. Ban chinese immigration and severely restrict both visas granted and the numbers of chinese diplomatic personal allowed in the US and where they are allowed to go. In other words treat china as a (currently non-belligerent) adversary.
Now do Qatar funding.
Are we still allowing foreign students in our military academies? I’ve always found that to be alarming.
Because the federal government is cutting support for so many colleges, the colleges have to find new or bigger revenue streams.
I don’t blame them for looking out for themselves.
Washington’s not been very helpful of late.
Beijing is *and* pays the list price.