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Confucius Institute, China’s soft power offensive:

There r more than 1,500 CI teaching centers Beijing has established in 140 countries since 2004..provide Chinese language & culture lessons to 1.5M+ students worldwide.. https://www.politico.eu/article/china-soft-power-offensive-confucius-institute-education/">https://www.politico.eu/article/c...

China’s soft power offensive

Beijing’s Confucius Institutes are part of its plan to become a top world power.

https://www.politico.eu/article/china-soft-power-offensive-confucius-institute-education/

Inside the ring: FBI investigating Confucius Institutes:

Mr. Wray warned that Beijing is using Chinese students & others for spying.

“It’s not just in major cities, it’s in small ones, as well, it’s across basically every discipline” https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/14/inside-the-ring-fbi-investigating-confucius-instit/">https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018...

Inside the Ring: FBI investigating Confucius Institutes

The FBI is investigating scores of Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes around the country over concerns the institutes are part of covert spying and influence operations.

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/14/inside-the-ring-fbi-investigating-confucius-instit/

Wand Dan, Tiananmen Square activist challenges China- backed institutes with provocative 30 year memory:
He accuses the institutes of trying to influence young people to promote the ideology of the Communist Party.. https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/4/wang-dan-tiananmen-square-activist-challenges-chin/">https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018...

Wang Dan, Tiananmen Square activist, challenges China-backed Confucius

As a young student, Wang Dan famously took a stand against China's communist rulers in the chaos of Tiananmen Square. Three decades later, he is challenging a key outpost of the Beijing regime in the

https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/4/wang-dan-tiananmen-square-activist-challenges-chin/

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Think Tanks that Chinese Communist Party funds:

John Hopkins School Of Advance Intl. Studies

Brookings Institution

The Atlantic Council

Center for American Progress
Easewest Institute

Carter Center

Carnegie endowment for Int.
Peace
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Trump to sign Confucius Institute funding ban:
Cruz had previously introduced a bill:
“Stop Higher Education Espionage & Theft Act 2018”

Why the hell government provided funding to ChiCom backed institutes in the beginning? http://www.educationviews.org/trump-to-sign-confucius-institute-funding-ban/">https://www.educationviews.org/trump-to-...

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How many American news Organisation have been infiltrated by the ChiComs? https://twitter.com/ericfish85/status/1066541748812476416?s=21">https://twitter.com/ericfish8...

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Aug 2018.
1. Chinese Surveillance Firm Builds Up Beltway Muscle:
Hikvision,partly owned by the commie govt,was banned from working for the US govt under National Defense Authorization Actsigned Into law by @POTUS Trump. https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/29/chinese-surveillance-firm-builds-lobbying-muscle/">https://www.breitbart.com/national-...

Chinese Surveillance Firm Builds Up Beltway Lobbying Muscle

Hikvision, a firm partly owned by the Chinese government, lobbies against legislation that would bar it from selling to the U.S. government.

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/08/29/chinese-surveillance-firm-builds-lobbying-muscle/

2. In June, Hikvision hired lobbies at Sidley Austin firm with its team of ex congressman & top lawyer at Senate Financial Service Committee.
The next month,it hired the Grover Park Group,which tasked former Hill & Treasury Dept stafferr.
In Aug,Burson-Marteller Marteller

3. The founder of Grover Park Group is Joe Lockhart, former White House Press Secretary under President Bill Clinton.
GPG’s Managing Director is Joel Johnson, a senior adviser also under Bill Clinton.

4. Guess who had worked at Sidley Austin?
Former First Lady Michell Obama!
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5. Michelle Obama, Bernardine Dohrn & Sidley Austin:
M.O. had been a summer associate of Sidley Austin in 1987,joined as associate in 1988.
Domestic terrorist Weather Underground Bill Ayer’s wife Bernardine Dohrn worked for SA from 1984 to 1988: https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/michelle-obama-bernardine-dohrn-and-sidley-austin-ed-whelan/">https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/mi...

Michelle Obama, Bernardine Dohrn, and Sidley & Austin

A quick follow-up to Andy McCarthy’s intriguing and provocative essay exploring when and how Barack Obama and Bill Ayers really first met: Michelle Obama joined Sidley & Austin as an associate …

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/michelle-obama-bernardine-dohrn-and-sidley-austin-ed-whelan/

6. Sideley Austin:
When Barack Met Michelle https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/05/11/sidley-austin-when-barack-met-michelle/">https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/...

Sidley Austin: When Barack Met Michelle

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https://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/05/11/sidley-austin-when-barack-met-michelle/

7. In Aug, Burson-Marsteller registered as a foreign agent for China’s Hikvision.
Who is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller?
Bill Clinton’s WH Director of Communication Don Baer!

8. In 2014, Burson-Marsteller CEO Don Baer named Chair of Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) board, which governs & lays out Policy for the network.

The ChiComs have infiltrated every institutes in America!!

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Burson-Marsteller CEO Baer named chair of PBS board

ARLINGTON, VA: Burson-Marsteller worldwide chair and CEO Donald Baer was elected as chair of the PBS board of directors, which governs and lays out policy for the network.

https://www.prweek.com/article/1319681/burson-marsteller-ceo-baer-named-chair-pbs-board

9. PBS has always been the ChiCom’s propaganda machine, the question is:
Why the heck should American taxpayers pay for this shit?!

Call ur congress members, DEFUND PBS!!

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9. PBS has always been the ChiCom’s propaganda machine, the question is:Why the heck should American taxpayers pay for this shit?!Call ur congress members, DEFUND PBS!! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable=

10. Your tax dollar is paying for this garbage!

Tell the congress, enough is enough!!

11. Mar 2017.
China’s propoganda machine NPR & PBS urge Congress to fight Trump’s proposal to eliminate funding: https://www.businessinsider.com/cpb-npr-pbs-federal-budget-funding-2017-3">https://www.businessinsider.com/cpb-npr-p...

Federal organization that includes NPR and PBS urges Congress to fight Trump's proposal to elimin...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting urged Congress and Trump to reconsider eliminating all federal funding to the CPB, which supports NPR and PBS.

https://www.businessinsider.com/cpb-npr-pbs-federal-budget-funding-2017-3

12. How much taxpayer $ had been wasted for PBS to produce a SIX -PART ‘The Story Of China’ crap?! https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-the-story-of-china-review-20170620-story.html">https://www.latimes.com/entertain...

'The Story of China' is a six-part series that, like the country's history, has its ups and downs

China has had its ups and downs, says historian and PBS series host Michael Wood.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-the-story-of-china-review-20170620-story.html

13. Sept 2018.
Trump Administration Considers Sanctions Against Dahua & Hikvision for their involvment In Human Rights abuses ( profiting from building camps & surveillance )against minorities inside of China. https://ipvm.com/reports/trump-consider-sanction">https://ipvm.com/reports/t...

Trump Administration Considers Sanctions Against Dahua and Hikvision

Support grows for sanctions against the two Chinese mega-manufacturers.

https://ipvm.com/reports/trump-consider-sanction

14. Hikvision & the Chinese Government:

#1 Fact- Hikvision CEO admits China Govt ownership
#2 Fact- Hikvision Financial Confirms govt control
#3 Fact- Hikvision’s VP R&D works for the Chinese govt
#4 Fact- Hikvision’s Chairman a Communist Party Secretary https://ipvm.com/reports/heres-what-really-sets-hikvision-apart">https://ipvm.com/reports/h...

Hikvision And The Chinese Government

Recently, a series of gushing, congratulatory articles about Hikvision, from numerous trade magazines, have appeared. There is a simple answer -...

https://ipvm.com/reports/heres-what-really-sets-hikvision-apart

15.
#5 Fact- Hikvision pledges accepting Communist Party Leadership.

Hikvision is more than 40% owned by govt entities, known as ‘state owned enterprice’
The Chinese govt is the ‘controlling shareholder’ of Hikvision.

16. How much $ PBS received from the taxpayers?
In fiscal year 2014:
It’s US$445.5 Million !!

Congress should ask PBS how much funding did it take to make those Chinese propaganda crap!!

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WFB: “Corker, Menendez Push Effort To Neuter Trump’s Broadcasting Chief” by undermining his choice to lead the nation’s taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation, according to several GOP sources. http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/wfb-corker-menendez-push-effort-to-neuter-trumps-broadcasting-chief/">https://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/...

WFB: “Corker, Menendez Push Effort to ‘Neuter’ Trump’s Broadcasting Chief”

BBG Watch Media Commentary Washington Free Beacon senior writer Susan Crabtree who has been reporting on U.S government media outreach conducted at taxpayers’ expense through the U.S. Agency for Gl…

http://bbgwatch.com/bbgwatch/wfb-corker-menendez-push-effort-to-neuter-trumps-broadcasting-chief/

-Obama leftovers in Taxpayer funded Voice Of America have been very anti @realDonaldTrump , cozying up to foreign governments especially Iranian & Chinese regime, censoring employees in response to pressure.

Opposing Communist Chinese Spies Isn’t Racist:
The ChiComs r spying on the US thru universities.
Is it racist to protect US college from foreign meddling?
A bill introduced by @tedcruz & @RepRooney ‘Stop Higher Education Espionage’ has received backlash https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/opposing-communist-chinese-spies-isnt-racist/">https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/o...

Opposing Communist Chinese Spies Isn’t Racist

It is not racist to call out the Chinese government’s record of economic theft and espionage, or to take measures to protect against it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/opposing-communist-chinese-spies-isnt-racist/

Dec 20, 2018
Chinese Tech Under Microscope:
US Agencies Step Up Reviews of Tesearch Activitiy On American Campuses.
Agencies include FBI, Dept of Education National Institute Of Health r coordinating efforts.. https://m.scmp.com/news/china/article/2179000/chinese-tech-under-microscope-us-agencies-step-reviews-research-activity">https://m.scmp.com/news/chin...

US steps up reviews of Chinese research activity on American campuses

Huawei and other Chinese firms are the focus of growing US concerns about possible technology transfers in academic settings, with the FBI, Department of Education and National Institutes of Health...

https://m.scmp.com/news/china/article/2179000/chinese-tech-under-microscope-us-agencies-step-reviews-research-activity

Dec 21, 2018
Chinese Media Deny WSJ Report About Global Banks Cutting Ties with Huawei:

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So far HSBC, Standard Chartered Have cut ties, new business with Citigroup would be subject to review.
Goldman Sachs opted not to take Huawei as client in 2013. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-21/chinese-media-deny-wsj-report-about-global-banks-cutting-ties-huawei">https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...

Chinese Media Deny WSJ Report About Global Banks Cutting Ties With Huawei

"It’s the kind of client Standard Chartered or HSBC would bend over backwards for..."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-21/chinese-media-deny-wsj-report-about-global-banks-cutting-ties-huawei

USAGM, VOA Management Must Be Strengthened:
House Foreign Affairs Chair Ed Royce released an oversight report that faulted “insufficient management” for allowing Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty & VOA to run FB ads that illegally target audiences in US https://freebeacon.com/issues/royce-usagm-voa-management-must-be-strengthened/">https://freebeacon.com/issues/ro...

Royce: USAGM, VOA Management Must Be Strengthened

A three-month congressional investigation uncovered new evidence of management failures at the U.S. Agency for Global Media.

https://freebeacon.com/issues/royce-usagm-voa-management-must-be-strengthened/

A report by Stanford U’s Hoover Institute cited concerns about Chinese officials’ influence on US institutes,including specific details about its “charm offensives & tougher tactics” on VOA & RadioFree Asia emplyees working in China.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/royce-usagm-voa-management-must-be-strengthened/">https://freebeacon.com/issues/ro...

-Including details about the Chinese embassy officials meeting annually with VOA leaders of its Mandarin service to express their opinions about the content.
Report also cited what it called a “pattern” by VOA of avoiding stories that could be perceived to be too tough on China

VOA Chairman Amanda Bennett has become the focus of conservative ire over her leadership. Which they say has become left leaning & anti-Trump,as well as too focused on domestic US audiences despite its mission to counter propaganda from Russia, China, Iran & other US adversaries

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World War 3:
China Sending UNDERCOVER Students To Eestern Universities To Steal Important Military Technology:
PLA deliberately sent scientists to UK, US, Germany, AUS & Singapore to acquire covert info on hypersonic missiles & navigation tech
@STUinSD https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1039766/World-War-3-China-US-undercover-students-western-universities-military-secrets-PLA">https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...

World War 3: China sending UNDERCOVER students to West to steal important MILITARY SECRETS

CHINA is sending undercover military scientists to western universities to work on strategic research in a bid to collect information about state-of-the-art military technology from its rivals, new...

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1039766/World-War-3-China-US-undercover-students-western-universities-military-secrets-PLA

Feb 27, 2019
Chinese-Funded Confucius Institutes On US Campuses R Too Strictly Controlled By China, Must Reform Or Be Shut Down, Senate Report Demands:

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@TheLastRefuge2 @almostjingo @Avery1776 @CarrollQuigley1 @MischaEDM @SuiBianXiaoGe https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/27/china-college-confucius-institutes-1221768">https://www.politico.com/story/201...

Chinese-funded institutes on U.S. college campuses condemned in Senate report

It's the latest example of congressional scrutiny of Chinese involvement in the American educational system.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/27/china-college-confucius-institutes-1221768

Do u know China’s “Thousand Talents” is a Spy op?

US-China Trade War Suspicions Have Had Chilling Effect on Beijing’s Thousand Talents Plan: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188919/us-china-trade-war-suspicions-have-had-chilling-effect-beijings">https://www.scmp.com/news/chin...

US-China trade war suspicions eclipse Thousand Talents Plan

Once a call to return home to thousands of Chinese overseas, scheme is overshadowed by mistrust as conflicts over tariffs and politics poison well of goodwill and opportunity.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2188919/us-china-trade-war-suspicions-have-had-chilling-effect-beijings

China’s ‘Thousand Talents’:
The Quiet Threat To National Security-
TTP is a strategy to swipe as many human assets from US & other western countries as possible in specific fields of study.

https://www.opslens.com/2018/07/chinas-thousand-talents-the-quiet-threat-to-national-security/">https://www.opslens.com/2018/07/c...

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