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January 17 , 2018
  • The New York Times：Ex-C.I.A. Officer Suspected of Compromising Chinese Informants Is Arrested
    The New York Times reports: "A former C.I.A. officer suspected by investigators of helping China dismantle United States spying operations and identify informants has been arrested, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The collapse of the spy network was one of the American government's worst intelligence failures in recent years. The arrest of the former officer, Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, capped an intense F.B.I. inquiry that began around 2012, two years after the C.I.A. began losing its informants in China. Investigators confronted an enduring mystery: How did the names of so many C.I.A. sources, among the agency's most dearly held secrets, end up in Chinese hands? Some intelligence officials believed that a mole inside the C.I.A. was exposing its roster of informants. Others thought that the Chinese government had hacked the C.I.A.'s covert communications used to talk to foreign sources of information. Still other former intelligence officials have also argued that the spy network might have been crippled by a combination of both, as well as sloppy tradecraft by agency officers in China. The counterintelligence investigation into how the Chinese managed to hunt down American agents was a source of friction between the C.I.A. and F.B.I. Mr. Lee, who left the C.I.A. in 2007, has been living in Hong Kong and working for a well-known auction house. He was apprehended at Kennedy Airport in New York on Monday and charged in federal court in Northern Virginia with the unlawful retention of national defense information."
  • Financial Times：Google quietly opens third China office
    Financial Times reports: "Google has quietly opened a third office in China, highlighting its growing hardware and ad businesses in the country even as the US tech company's signature search engine remains blocked there. The new office is in Shenzhen, the former fishing village turned Asian Silicon Valley that borders Hong Kong and is home to Chinese tech giants including Tencent and Huawei. Key services of several US companies are blocked in China but the groups continue to generate big business from the country. China is one of Facebook's top four international money-spinning regions along with western Europe, Canada and Australia. Increasingly global-facing Chinese manufacturers, including handset makers Huawei and Xiaomi, and service providers such as hotels and tourism groups are turning to the likes of Google and Facebook to advertise their wares overseas. Google's search engine has been blocked in China since 2010, when the company pulled out after several years of conflict with Beijing over censorship of searches involving politically sensitive keywords. But Google maintained a presence in the country and recently has been making modest efforts to mend relations."
  • Politico：How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms
    Politico comments: "Last year, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte made an announcement to great fanfare: The university would soon open a branch of the Confucius Institute, the Chinese government-funded educational institutions that teach Chinese language, culture and history. The Confucius Institute would 'help students be better equipped to succeed in an increasingly globalized world,' says Nancy Gutierrez, UNC Charlotte's dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and 'broaden the University's outreach and support for language instruction and cultural opportunities in the Charlotte community,' according to a press release. But the Confucius Institutes' goals are a little less wholesome and edifying than they sound—and this is by the Chinese government's own account. A 2011 speech by a standing member of the Politburo in Beijing laid out the case: 'The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for expanding our culture abroad,' Li Changchun said. 'It has made an important contribution toward improving our soft power. The 'Confucius' brand has a natural attractiveness. Using the excuse of teaching Chinese language, everything looks reasonable and logical'... More than a decade after they were created, Confucius Institutes have sprouted up at more than 500 college campuses worldwide, with more than 100 of them in the United States... That so many universities have welcomed the Confucius Institute with open arms points to another disturbing trend in American higher education: an alarming willingness to accept money at the expense of principles that universities are ostensibly devoted to upholding. At a time when universities are as willing as ever to shield their charges from controversial viewpoints, some nonetheless welcome foreign, communist propaganda—if the price is right."
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