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My low-information view is that the Chinese government is an extraordinarily effective communications agency who very clearly understands the role that univers

My low-information view is that the Chinese government is an extraordinarily effective communications agency who very clearly understands the role that university students play in transmitting culture, especially when studying abroad, and has very openly worked to help spread their message throughout their diaspora. Many US universities have a Chinese Student & Scholar Association and it's not like they try to hide that they are arms of the CCP. (Just for a random example https://myinvolvement.org/organization/cssaatualbany https://myinvolvement.org/organization/cssaatualbany - "The Chinese Student and Scholar Association at the University of Albany is joined and organized by the Chinese students and scholars at the University of Albany of their own record. It is a nonprofit organization that is supported and guided by CCP through the Consulate-General of the PRC in New York.") Mass organization can do incredible things -- a group of people is much more effective than the individuals.

bellyfullofbac 5y ago
I wonder how much of it is similar to East Germany with their informants, it's possible that even overseas the students don't dare speak out because someone in their friend group could report them. And as the press release said, even the student's parents back home got harassed by the cops. It'd be an effective way of control, "Hey why didn't you come to our student org meeting last week?".
bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago
The CSSA is part of the CCP’s overseas surveillance and intimidation arm. I speculated last year that the CSSA was also involved in the arrest of Chinese student Luo Daiqing from the University of Minnesota. He was arrested when he set foot in China for Xinnie the Pooh meme tweets he made while in the states.[0] [0] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/university-of-minnesota-student-jailed-in-china-for-tweeting-memes-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-how-was-he-caught/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/university-of-min...

bellyfullofbac 5y ago

I wonder how much of it is similar to East Germany with their informants, it's possible that even overseas the students don't dare speak out because someone in their friend group could report them. And as the press release said, even the student's parents back home got harassed by the cops. It'd be an effective way of control, "Hey why didn't you come to our student org meeting last week?".

bitxbitxbitcoin 5y ago

The CSSA is part of the CCP’s overseas surveillance and intimidation arm. I speculated last year that the CSSA was also involved in the arrest of Chinese student Luo Daiqing from the University of Minnesota. He was arrested when he set foot in China for Xinnie the Pooh meme tweets he made while in the states.[0] [0] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/university-of-minnesota-student-jailed-in-china-for-tweeting-memes-of-chinese-president-xi-jinping-how-was-he-caught/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/university-of-min...