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> Occasionally, Chinese intelligence activities in San Francisco burst into plain view. Consider the story—and it is an incredible one, also told here for the f

by 07d046 8y ago

> Occasionally, Chinese intelligence activities in San Francisco burst into plain view. Consider the story—and it is an incredible one, also told here for the first time—of the 2008 Olympic Torch Run. > ... > Most brazenly, said former intelligence agents, Chinese officials bussed in 6,000-8,000 J-Visa holding students—threatening them with the loss of Chinese government funding—from across California to disrupt Falun Gong, Tibetan, Uighur and pro-democracy protesters. (They even provided these students with a box lunch.) “I’m not sure they would have pulled out these stops in any other city, but San Francisco is special” to China, said a former senior U.S. official. It's wild, but the same thing happened in Canberra, Australia. The CCP organised thousands of Chinese students to support Beijing and counter-protest pro-Tibet protesters.

gowld 8y ago
That sounds like an easy win for immigration officials to check in and start deportation proceedings for unregistered foreign agents on student visas.
grappler 8y ago
Reminds me of an incident from my college days. An international student association put on some sort of cultural appreciation event. Students from other countries would perform songs or dances or poems from their homeland. This was around 2004 or so. I don't remember the political climate being very charged, or at least not at my engineering school. There were blogs but major social networks hadn't yet taken off. So at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!"
- clubm8 8y ago
  >at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!" Sounds like battery to me. Should have had this student arrested, charges pressed, and ooops - criminality makes you lose your student visa. Fuck anyone who abuses America's hospitality to try to take away someone's 1st Amendment rights.
namlem 8y ago
We should revoke all their visas.

by 07d046 8y ago

gowld 8y ago

That sounds like an easy win for immigration officials to check in and start deportation proceedings for unregistered foreign agents on student visas.

grappler 8y ago

Reminds me of an incident from my college days. An international student association put on some sort of cultural appreciation event. Students from other countries would perform songs or dances or poems from their homeland. This was around 2004 or so. I don't remember the political climate being very charged, or at least not at my engineering school. There were blogs but major social networks hadn't yet taken off. So at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!"

clubm8 8y ago
>at this international student event, a guy goes up and says he's going to do a song from his home country, Taiwan. He doesn't get much farther before a Chinese student runs onstage, grabs the microphone away from him and yells into it "Taiwan is not a country!" Sounds like battery to me. Should have had this student arrested, charges pressed, and ooops - criminality makes you lose your student visa. Fuck anyone who abuses America's hospitality to try to take away someone's 1st Amendment rights.

namlem 8y ago

We should revoke all their visas.