The Chinese government has demanded protections for its students in the US after a congressional committee asked six universities to hand over information about Chinese students enrolled in science, technology, engineering, and math (Stem) programmes.
Carnegie Mellon University, Purdue University, Stanford University, the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland, and the University of Southern California on Thursday were sent letters by the chair of the US House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, who alleges that Beijing is embedding its students in top research programmes “to illegally gain access to critical research and advanced technology”.
Committee chair John Moolenaar stated in his letter that the United States was at “a dangerous crossroads where the pursuit of short-term financial gains by academic institutions jeopardizes long-term global technological leadership and national security”.
Chinese students are “illegally gaining access to critical research and advanced technology”…by reading textbooks and carrying out research tasks in a lab that any student would anyways in any of the listed universities… Oh the horror!
This is the kind of red scare sinophobia that liberals are all complicit in as well. This is why there have been anti-China propaganda pushes: so that you will accept and maybe even help implement siniphobic policies.
The fascists (including the blue ones) are really doing a speedrun to see how quickly they can destroy US academic and technological hegemony
Universities are already required to do ‘export controls’ checks and create access control plans for sensitive research data and tech. Wonder why they’re targeting these particular students (who’ve already been vetted).
