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Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

China - American Universities

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Written by Laurence F Sanford, Senior Analyst ASCF

Categories: ASCF News ASCF Articles

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Chinese College Students in American Colleges

American universities openly welcome the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After all, many universities are controlled by Marxist professors who welcome fellow comrades. Also welcome are the millions of dollars the CCP funnels to the universities to gain influence and access to elite American leaders.
Chinese entities (all organizations in China are controlled by the CCP) entered into $120 million worth of contracts with American universities in 2021. The University of Houston, with its engineering programs, led the pack with $32 million, followed by the University of Illinois, MIT, and Harvard. The contracts were in the fields of engineering or science.
The CCP is waging “unrestricted warfare” on the U.S. and conducts gray zone influencing operations in universities. Millions of dollars have been donated to:
• The University of Pennsylvania received $54.6 million in donations from Chinese entities, many anonymous, through 2019. Most of the donations were received after the Penn Biden Center was established in 2017 in Washington D.C. after Joe Biden left office as U.S. vice president. Biden was paid $911,000 for an occasional speech; he never taught a class.
Classified documents were discovered in a closet in Biden’s office in November 2022 by his lawyers. The documents contained intelligence information on Iran, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom from 2013 to 2016.
Kathy Chung, born in South Korea with a Chinese surname, was an executive assistant for Biden when he was vice president. She was responsible for the transfer of documents when vacating his White House office in January 2017. Hunter Biden had recommended her for the job after his many sojourns to China consorting with CCP leaders. She is now Deputy Director of Protocol for Defense Secretary Austin.
Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, and nine other Penn Biden Center employees are prominent officials in the Biden administration.
The then-president of Penn, Amy Guttman, is now the U.S. Ambassador to Germany.
• Harvard received $75 million and Yale $43 million from Chinese sources in the period 2014 through 2019.
Morgan State University, a prominent historically black university, issued a student report sponsored by the China-U.S. Exchange, a CCP think tank, to spin the CCP’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The report is filled with analysis that treats the Chinese and American responses to coronavirus as equal, ignoring evidence that Beijing lied about the virus leaking from a lab.
Over 290,000 Chinese students studied in American universities in the academic year 2021/22. This is down from 372,000 students in the academic year 2019/20. The majority study math, science, and engineering. Many of the students already have degrees in these subjects, but they come as former employees of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and other CCP organizations to gather (steal) the latest technology and support CCP policies.
Joe Rogan recently interviewed former CIA officer Mike Baker and warned that Chinese students are infiltrating U.S. universities to siphon data and information. Often, they are caught stealing confidential data, but nothing seems to happen to them. Neither does anything seem to happen to students caught laundering money for the Mexican and Chinese drug cartels from the sale of opioids such as fentanyl.

Action
1. Recognize the CCP for what it is: a totalitarian dictatorship whose goal is to dominate the world. Individual freedoms and life are meaningless, as witnessed by the ongoing Uyghur genocide, organ harvesting, and religious suppression.
2. Never trust a communist; truth means nothing; only power matters.
3. Reciprocate CCP actions; if no American media or social networks can operate in China, then no Chinese social media, such as TikTok, should operate in America.
4. Rebuild and strengthen the U.S. military with more missiles, drones, and submarines.
5. The U.S. government should scrutinize the funding of universities. If universities receive CCP donations or funding, then no more U.S. taxpayer monies.

Peace Through Strength!
Laurence F. Sanford
Senior Analyst
American Security Council Foundation
www.ascf.us

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