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I'm a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy

• alephnerd 1y ago
  While I don't think there has been infiltration to the degree that certain culture warriors are parroting, the espionage and influence attempts are fairly persistent. For example, one student org I founded during my undergraduate days at the university targeted by Trump admin now has a UFWD sponsor (credit to him, he didn't hide his affiliation) who is often invited to their events and tends to spam both the SO's listserv along with other alumni ones as well. That said, plenty of other nations and domestic factions have been attempting similar stuff as well. At some point, I think it needs to be asked whether student orgs in general need to be increasingly restructured if groups outside of the campus community are using them to further their own causes internally. And before some free speech fundamentalist or bad faith actor attempts to engage with me on this point, Karl Popper's "Paradox of Tolerance" highlights this exact problem. There is a smart way to do this, and the way the admin attempted it is not smart at all.
• dttze 1y ago
  > It means I’m familiar with China’s dark arts, and I now have the tools to call it out. The 20 year old white girl is an expert on China, right. What a joke of an article. The account could have been an FBI counterintelligence op for all she knows.