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The US is concerned about the influx of Chinese spies

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The sharp increase of industrial, economic and military spying activity in favor of China has recently become a serious problem for the US authorities. The leakage of technology to the Celestial Empire affects a lot to the US economy, while the politicians who allowed that take significant reputational losses. That is why today the case of "Chinese spies" is discussed at the highest level. The congressmen, representatives of the special services, employees of both the State Department and the White House (i.e. all who can somehow influence on the situation) are engaged.

It seems that the real scale of the problem is really impressive. At least, today there are all reasons to believe that, potentially, the most important spheres in the state may be flooded with Chinese spies. Thus, in mid-April, 2018 an article appeared on the Stratfor website stating that the US government, large business and research centers might be infiltrated with some agents of the Chinese special services.

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The article:

"USA in Chinese cobweb. American Congressmen cover spies of Celestial Empire

The recent aggravation of the US and Chinese trading relations have had an impact on the inner problems about Chinese Americans. It affected increase in espionage activity in Chinese favor at the territory of the United States of America, initially.

Regrettably, the fact of the constant Chinese espionage in the USA has been no news. It has been taken for granted both by state security agencies and mass media. The issue is not only about lately rise in cases of industrial cyber-spying.

As my colleague Roger Baker likes to say, "there are no former Chinese", there are Overseas Chinese. Regardless of citizenry, each person of Chinese origin has been considered a P.R. China full citizen the moment he sets foot on Chinese land. This also means falling within jurisdiction of Chinese law-enforcement agencies. They have a right to substantive examination of all citizens from abroad and their recruitment, whether it is about a Chinese stall keeper or an American nuclear physicist.

In such ways, legally and openly the Chinese government gains useful and possibly secret information. However, those very non-former Chinese have been working in the American security and intelligence agencies, holding posts in the State Department, making strategic studies in closed military labs, sitting in the Houses of Congress due to the lack of ethnic discrimination in the USA.

There was no obvious connection between caught Chinese spies and Chinese-Americans until fairly recently. On all occasions the criminal trace led over the ocean. For some time though, a fairly strong consistency became discernible in seemingly unrelated cases. Thus all those people willingly cooperated with the police and court authorities. After that they got their slap on the wrist in the form of a short sentence or mere fine for the crimes that cost the Cuban Five several life stretches. Some them managed not only to escape punishment but also to amount to a symbol of "bias and suppression" towards Asian-Americans. As if an invisible hand pulled some strings.

For instance, in 2015, espionage charges against hydrologists Sherry Chen and Xi Xiaoxing were dropped. This inspired protest movement among citizens of Asian Pacific origin. This is where Rep. Judy Chu comes in. She questioned the attorney general at a House Judiciary Committee Oversight hearing, with Chen and Xi present. The very Rep. Chu concluded about "the growing perception that simply being of Asian ancestry or having ties to China can trigger an espionage charge ... that makes Asian Americans feel unwelcome and afraid to pursue prominent careers."

Hereupon, a number of Beijing spies in the USA suddenly reduced. Meanwhile other American citizens only had to become meekly reconciled to the fact that any of their workfellow, or employee, or just a nextdoor of Chinese origin has been able to deliver small information services to his historical homeland without any consequences, if desired. Otherwise, a fearsome figure of the Member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee started looming loaded for bear in behalf of another poor victim of American suppression. Lately, everyone caught in espionage in favor of P.R. China occurred to be men of importance in secure agencies, or non-Chinese.

Rep. Chu also earnestly cares for a fate of immigrants of other nationalities, who's been detained attempting to cross the US border by the police service, for security reasons. Even though such support has been limited by expressions of indignation at the Congresswoman's medium page. Seemingly, just "within the four seas, all men are brothers."
 
Chinese learned their lesson concerning the United States during the Reconstruction period post civil war. A select group of 120 boys of Chinese elites were ordered sobbing out of China to the USA to learn the ways of the American foreign devils and return to China savvy to the modern world as it existed then. The boys were primarily from Zhuhai, a thriving port city a short hop from Hong Kong and Macau. The design went so well the boys became fluent in English, Americanized, loved their baseball team the "Orientals," lived with the best families of New England, attended the best prep schools and found Yale University to their liking.



However when a mandarin arrived to research a report to the emperor he was so alarmed by the almost complete Americanization of the boys the mission was terminated. Several boys refused to leave and were sheltered by American supporters. While the boys waited in sorrow in San Francisco for their slow boat to China they accepted a challenge from a local baseball nine, winning 3-2 to close out their love of American baseball. The boys continued to speak English to each other privately in China.




Chinese Educational Mission 1872-1881: The Fortunate Sons

The Chinese Educational Mission or CEM was the pioneering but frustrated attempt by reform-minded officials of the Qing dynasty to educate a group of 120 Chinese students in the United States.

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Six boys from the First Detachment taken after arriving at San Francisco in September 1872



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A Chinese lesson being held at the CEM Headquarters. At regular intervals the youths received instruction in Chinese at the CEM’s headquarters located at 400 Collins St. in Hartford, CT. The building was comfortable and well-appointed, but to many of the boys it was “The Hell House” where they were forced to memorize and recite the Confucian classics under a Chinese tutor using the traditional pedagogy and its strict rules of conduct.


In 1871, Yung Wing, himself the first Chinese-American graduate of Yale University, persuaded the Chinese government to send supervised groups of young Chinese to the United States to study Western science and engineering. With the government's eventual approval, he organized what came to be known as the Chinese Educational Mission, which included 120 students, some under the age of ten, to study in the New England region of the United States beginning in 1872.


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Woo Chung Yen, who attended the Norwich Academy in Connecticut.


The boys arrived in several detachments, lived with American families in Hartford, Connecticut, and other New England towns; and after graduating high school, went on to college, especially at Yale. When a new supervisory official arrived, he found that they had adopted many American customs, such as playing baseball, and felt they were neglecting their Chinese heritage and becoming "denationalized."

In addition, external pressures such as the US government's refusal in 1878 to permit students to attend the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy at Annapolis[1] in contravention of the Burlingame Treaty of 1868 called the whole purpose of the mission, the acquisition of Western military expertise, into question. Due to internal and external pressures, the mission was ended in 1881. When the boys returned to China, they were confined and interrogated.[2]

Many of the students later returned to China and made significant contributions to China's civil services, engineering, and the sciences. Prominent students on the mission included Liang Cheng, Tang Shaoyi, Tsai Ting Kan (Cai Tinggan), and Tien You Jeme (Zhan Tianyou).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Educational_Mission




Rule Number One In China: Never believe a foreigner. Under Xi Jinpingpong in fact CCP officials never speak with foreigners outside of the formal meeting room. They're afraid they might catch something talking with Western people.



Read More:

CEM Connections - HOME


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https://www.c-span.org/video/?298214-1/fortunate-sons
 
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