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During a speech on Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized schools for self-censoring “out of fear of offending China.” And said that “So many of our colleges are bought by Beijing.”
“to influence American students as well, professors and administrators too. Look, they know that left-leaning college campuses are rife with anti-Americanism, and present easy targets for their anti-American messaging. That’s why they planted Confucius Institutes on our campuses. … Look, it’s why there are groups on campuses called Chinese Students and Scholars Associations here too. They’re directed and almost always funded by the Chinese embassy or a local Chinese consulate. Its purpose, to keep tabs on students and to press pro-Beijing causes. Now, you would think at freedom-loving places like Georgia Tech and institutions and scholars all across the world, administrators, school faculty would be more up in arms about the Chinese Communist Party’s outright theft and flagrant violation of freedoms that I’ve described, but we see it too seldom. Well, why? Why do schools censor themselves? They often do it out of fear of offending China.”
“And I must say that yielding to the objection of hurt feelings plays right into the Chinese Communist Party’s hands. They watch America closely. It’s what the party says constantly in response to legitimate criticism around the world. You can see it. … Look, we can’t let the CCP weaponize political correctness against American liberties. We have to protect and preserve them. Fraudulent cries of racism or xenophobia should never drown out a candid exposure of the activities of the Chinese Communist Party. But we see too often on American campuses that there’s silence and censorship. It’s being driven by the Chinese Communist Party. It usually boils down to something far less idealistic. So many of our colleges are bought by Beijing.”
“The U.S. Department of Education, over the last years, has found that schools have taken an estimated $1.3 billion from China since 2013. That’s just what we know about. Like so many — like Columbia — so many schools have failed to report the true amounts.”
Events came to head in the fall as the Directorate, led by the left-wing Socialist Revolutionary Party, controlled the government. The left-wing Bolsheviks were deeply unhappy with the government, and began spreading calls for a military uprising. On 10 October 1917 (O.S.; 23 October, N.S.), the Petrograd Soviet, led by Trotsky, voted to back a military uprising. On 24 October (O.S,; 6 November, N.S.) the government shut down numerous newspapers and closed the city of Petrograd in an attempt to forestall the coup; minor armed skirmishes broke out. The next day a full scale uprising erupted, as a fleet of Bolshevik sailors entered the harbor and tens of thousands of soldiers rose up in support of the Bolsheviks. Bolshevik Red Guards forces under the Military-Revolutionary Committee began the occupation of government buildings on 25 October (O.S.; 7 November, N.S.), 1917. The following day, the Winter Palace (the seat of the Provisional government located in Petrograd, then capital of Russia) was captured.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently stirred up controversy by advising his employees to read Chinese President Xi Jinping’s book The Governance of China, because he wants them to “understand socialism with Chinese characteristics.” The book appeared prominently placed on his desk during a recent visit from China’s Internet czar Lu Wei, and he apparently has bought a number of copies to share with others. (To be clear—and I am assuming Mr. Zuckerberg realizes this—Xi’s book is not a book that he, himself, wrote; it is a collection of his speeches and interviews.) For the free publicity he is providing the Chinese leader, Zuckerberg has been widely condemned on the Chinese Internet. Given Zuckerberg’s position as the CEO of one of America’s leading technology firms, it is worth exploring whether such criticism is deserved.
originally posted by: Lumenari
a reply to: Flesh699
The USSR invaded our college campuses in the 70's.
Their idea was to indoctrinate new American generations to accept socialism.
The newly-formed Russia kept on doing it....
So this is nothing new.
I figure China is getting into the game now because so far, it appears to work really well.
See... our last election.
S&F for the OP and something every American regardless of party should consider.
On Wednesday, an FBI Twitter account did the same. An account called FBI Records Vault tweeted out a link to a PDF containing the anti-Semitic tome as well as FBI documents related to it, with no other context, leaving critics baffled and outraged.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Flesh699
Most Americans do not care if China is influencing politicians, industry, education...or even that the country created Covid-19 and enabled its arrival in the United States.
Sad..but True.
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Flesh699
Most Americans do not care if China is influencing politicians, industry, education...or even that the country created Covid-19 and enabled its arrival in the United States.
Sad..but True.
For 22 years, a cabal of the nation’s largest hog producers held an annual private get-together — a high-powered gathering that court documents describe as “The Circle.”
Beyond the individual allegations, Maxwell’s complaint reveals how left unchecked, one powerful company — Smithfield — can tilt the so-called free market in its favor: Beginning with the mechanisms by which whole hog prices are set, it affects purchasing agreements with other swine producers and their ability to earn a profit. Smithfield owns and operates hundreds of its own farms. And in contracts with individually-owned farms, Smithfield controls every aspect of the operations — feed, medication, lagoon and sprayfield waste systems and trucking. The only aspects of the farm it doesn’t own or control are the labor, the buildings and the land.
But Smithfield, which was purchased by the Chinese company, WH Group, in 2013, continued paying its producers the substandard auction price, the lawsuit reads. In 2016, Maxwell began to feel the economic hit, and asked to renegotiate the pricing structure with Smithfield. Smithfield allegedly refused to adjust the price.
Coincidentally, that was the same year that Smithfield stopped holding meetings of The Circle. “Producers were unhappy with prices they were receiving from Smithfield” — the auction price — according to the lawsuit. And Smithfield “curtailed the production and sale information it provided to Maxwell.”
RICHMOND, Va. and SMITHFIELD, Va., Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Dominion Energy (NYSE) and Smithfield Foods, Inc., announced today they have completed the first renewable natural gas (RNG) project through their joint venture, Align Renewable Natural Gas℠. Located in Milford in southwestern Utah, the project is now producing RNG from a network of 26 family farms that raise hogs under contract with Smithfield.
The project is the first large-scale effort in the state to capture methane from hog farming operations and convert it into clean energy for homes, businesses and transportation. Significantly more greenhouse gas emissions are captured from the farms than are released when consumers use the gas, which makes RNG a "carbon-beneficial" energy source.