'Academic espionage': China
suspected of flooding U.S. with
students to access sensitive programs
Washington Times,
by
Ben Wolfgang
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
8/23/2019 12:56:19 PM
America’s plan to catch China in the race to deploy super-fast hypersonic weapons may begin in college classrooms. Academic leaders, lawmakers, and military and intelligence officials say Washington needs to take a harder look at the number of Chinese who come to the U.S. to study engineering, aeronautics, astronautics, quantum mechanics and other fields that have direct connections to national security. The massive influx of Chinese students in recent years, they say, has led directly to Beijing’s advantage in the development of hypersonics and other cutting-edge technology—though U.S. officials say privately that it’s difficult, if not impossible, to track individual cases
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/23/2019 1:00:22 PM (No. 160097)
I was going to post what OP said. We have heard this before. Every once in a while the media wakes up, mentions it, then the story falls into the deep well until another slow news cycle.
As I remember my parents telling me, the Japanese did the same thing before WWII. And they were great copyists.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 8/23/2019 1:23:51 PM (No. 160121)
Well, Duh! How about all the H1B workers with access to government computers, or have we already forgotten about Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? The MSM certainly has.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 8/23/2019 2:01:55 PM (No. 160160)
The U.S. needs to recall all U.S. citizens working in China and send all Chinese citizens home, including the students here.. It appears that it is impossible to reach any kind of normalized agreement with China. We can survive without China but can China survive without the USA. ? Stop the death bu 1000 cuts and just close up shop.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 2:13:57 PM (No. 160169)
Yes, this is absolutely the case. And AT MINIMUM, we are educating Chinese and giving them a huge leg up in competing with us. Add in that they expect at least a few of these students to get jobs where they can spy on US companies, and learn more commercial secrets, and we should bar ALL Chinese students from the USA.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 2:31:28 PM (No. 160179)
#1, the engine used in the Japanese Zero fighter aircraft, one of their most advanced aircraft, was while not a direct copy, a closely reverse-engineered variation of the 1930s US Pratt & Whitney 1535 radial engine design. This US engine was quickly surpassed and left behind as too small, too low powered by US designers, but the Japanese had copied it, and put it into production in 1939. One of their great hinderances as WW2 wore on was the Japanese inability to produce more powerful aircraft engines.
Our USN/USMC fighter which initially fought their Zeroes in the Solomon Islands Campaign in 1942 were the Grumman Wildcat, originally powered with a 1200 hp P&W engine. By the end of the war, our front line USN fighter was the Grumman Hellcat, with a more advanced P&W engine which produced 2100-2200 hp, while the Japanese, almost certainly because they were copying our design and not designing from scratch, were unable to design a larger, successful air cooled engine for later Zero variants. The Hellcats were easily a match or superior to the Zero. The Zero engine produced about 950 hp, but the Zero aircraft was much lighter, due to no defensive systems (self-sealing fuel tanks and armor plating).
Copying can work, but leaves a knowledge vacuum, and the copier cannot continue the development process on their own.
Chinese OUT of our colleges.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
RenoVet68 8/23/2019 3:00:30 PM (No. 160212)
Let's not forget Big Rat Terry McAuliffe helped a company called Loral Space get seats on official trade missions. He reportedly convinced the Clinton administration to overrule national security officials in order win approval for a Loral deal that gave Red China critical missile technology.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
snakeoil 8/23/2019 3:37:23 PM (No. 160243)
If you go to any major university and walk through the halls of the engineering, science, and math departments you find that most of the students are not American citizens. One of the reasons is they all pay (or someone does) out of state tuition which makes lots of money. Have always wondered why taxpayers don't get upset to know they are paying to educate foreign nationals. The biggest block would be a contest between China (mainland) and India. Am not PC. But these students are labeled International Students and not Foreign Students. And you are not supposed to refer to them as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc. The proper term is Asian. And Oriental is the equivalent of Fredo.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Highvoltage 8/23/2019 5:35:52 PM (No. 160334)
Get the Chinese out of the country now! Shut China down financially! Don't buy anything marked "made in China".
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 6:44:03 PM (No. 160406)
Suspected???? Really? This is obviously true.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 6:44:29 PM (No. 160408)
No more Chinese on H1Bs.
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This is nothing new, but the universities love the money they use to pay inflated salaries to professors and administrators who yearn to see the USA fall. Likewise with industrial espionage and "cheap" foreign engineers; all OK when the horizon of interest is the next financial quarter, versus nations that plan centuries in advance.