Bombshell report suggests 'Chinese spies' infiltrating prestigious US university: 'Widespread campaign'

A bombshell study retired of Stanford University shed airy connected the power of spies from the Chinese Communist Party that the pupil paper says person apt infiltrated the prestigious instauration and different universities nationwide to stitchery intelligence.

The report, published by the Stanford Review, tells the communicative of a Stanford pupil moving connected delicate probe astatine the schoolhouse – and fixed the sanction "Anna" to support her individuality – receiving unexpected messages from a antheral with the alias Charles Chen asking astir seemingly harmless topics similar networking opportunities. 

Those messages soon took a "strange turn," according to the outlet erstwhile Chen’s questions became much personal, asking Anna if she spoke Mandarin, encouraging her to sojourn Beijing connected a travel helium would wage for, and referencing details she had ne'er disclosed to him.

Charles advised Anna connected however to participate China concisely capable to debar visa scrutiny from authorities, told her to lone pass done the CCP-monitored WeChat and told her to delete screenshots.

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A caller study from a Stanford pupil paper sheds airy connected imaginable Chinese spying astatine the prestigious school. (Getty)

"Under the guidance of experts acquainted with espionage tactics, Anna contacted authorities," the nonfiction explains. 

"Their probe revealed that Charles Chen had nary affiliation with Stanford. Instead, helium had posed arsenic a Stanford pupil for years, somewhat altering his sanction and persona online, targeting aggregate students, astir each of them women researching China-related topics. According to the experts connected China who assisted Anna, Charles Chen was apt an cause of the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), tasked with identifying sympathetic Stanford students and gathering intelligence."

Fox News Digital spoke to students progressive successful the nonfiction who explained that determination are 3 large takeaways from the findings of the report. 

"Number one, what we saw was a afloat apparatus for extracting accusation truthful they would deed the students they wanted, past two, they would administer loyalty tests and 3 they would request the accusation beryllium sent back," 1 of the students said. 

In immoderate cases, if the students garbage to supply accusation to the CCP, their parents are threatened backmost location and sometimes interrogated by police, according to the students who spoke to immoderate Chinese planetary students.

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People sojourn Stanford University successful Stanford, California (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘To beryllium precise clear, what they said is that each Chinese planetary pupil astatine immoderate clip tin beryllium asked by the CCP to disclose their probe information," Fox News Digital was told. 

"So what that looks similar is, perchance play calls with the Chinese ambassador backmost successful China, wherever they volition explicate what probe they're doing and if it is peculiarly delicate technologies similar AI and robotics. This is wherever the bulk of the CCP targeting is happening. They'll inquire them to nonstop backmost not conscionable nationalist information, they'll besides nonstop backmost interior laboratory reports, aboriginal directions of the research, recorded conversations with the professor, the methodologies, the different participants successful the research, peculiarly if they're Chinese planetary students truthful they tin look for different ones."

The Stanford Review communicative points retired that the House Select Committee connected China sent a letter to Stanford past twelvemonth informing of the risks that China poses to STEM research. 

The nonfiction besides explained however concerns astir a Chinese spy beingness successful China person "quietly persisted" for "years" and claimed that respective radical who were contacted were excessively acrophobic to talk publicly.

"One pupil who experienced espionage firsthand was excessively fearful to recount their story, adjacent via encrypted messaging," the nonfiction states. 

"‘The hazard is excessively high,’ they explained. "Transnational repression, $64 cardinal in Chinese funding, and allegations of racial profiling person contributed to a pervasive civilization of soundlessness astatine Stanford and beyond."

The authors of the article, aft interviewing dozens of radical successful and astir the university, summed up their findings by saying, "The CCP is orchestrating a wide intelligence-gathering run astatine Stanford."

"In short, ‘there are Chinese spies astatine Stanford.’"

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China's nationalist emblem flutters connected Pingtan island, the closest constituent successful China to Taiwan's main island, successful southeast China's Fujian state connected Dec. 11, 2024. (Adek Berry/Getty Images)

Fox News Digital spoke to erstwhile California GOP Congressman Michelle Steel astir the report, and she explained that hundreds of millions of dollars are pouring successful from China to prestigious universities. She called the concern "very dangerous."

"President Trump is wholly right," Steel said. "China is the biggest menace to each different industries, but particularly universities."

Hudson Institute elder chap Michael Sobolik, who recently published an article urging the U.S. to "stop giving Beijing an vantage done TikTok," told Fox News Digital that "sunlight is the champion disinfectant" successful this situation.

"If Stanford is disquieted astir overseas espionage and coercion connected its field – and it should beryllium – past its enactment volition request to telephone it retired publicly," Sobolik said. 

"Thus far, woke authorities person deterred Stanford from speaking out. That’s insane, and it rebounds to Beijing's benefit. The CCP is 1 of the astir racist governmental organizations successful the world, and it hides down the Chinese radical arsenic a shield," helium continued. "If Americans are acrophobic to telephone the enactment out, we implicitly beforehand the CCP’s communicative that there’s nary quality betwixt the Chinese radical and the CCP."

In a statement, Stanford University said it "takes its committedness to nationalist information with the utmost seriousness, and we are acutely alert of the threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party to each probe universities."

"Stanford has rigorous policies and processes successful spot to guarantee that probe by its module and students is conducted successful a mode that safeguards America’s interests. Stanford does not behaviour classified oregon concealed research," the connection continued. "Stanford has a university-wide process for reporting threats to probe security, and cautiously assesses each reports. Stanford consults with national instrumentality enforcement and quality agencies to guarantee our policies and procedures are rigorous and support nationalist security."

The assemblage added that it is "looking into" the Stanford Review study and has reached retired to national instrumentality enforcement, adding that it is "very important to separate betwixt threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese and Chinese-American module and students who are astatine Stanford to larn and lend to the procreation of knowledge, and are valued members of our community."

Steel and the Stanford students told Fox News Digital that portion it is important not to generalize and marque assumptions astir each Chinese students, it is the students from China who are yet the victims successful this concern arsenic they are coerced and sometimes punished by the CCP. 

"We truly person to support these guiltless students, guiltless Chinese Americans, but astatine the aforesaid clip we truly person to vet those students coming successful oregon anybody, adjacent diplomats, they're coming in, we truly person to vet them," Steel said. 

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Fox News Digital reached retired to the Chinese embassy successful Washington, D.C., for remark connected the study and received a connection denying the allegations. 

"The supra reports are afloat of mendacious information, delusional speculation, governmental lies and ideological prejudice," spokesperson Liu Pengyu said. "China is powerfully dissatisfied with and firmly opposes this."

"China-US acquisition practice has not lone expanded the channels for students of the 2 countries and enhanced the knowing betwixt the 2 peoples, but besides promoted the economical prosperity and technological and technological innovation of the United States, which is successful the interests of some sides," the connection continued. 

"We impulse the US to halt generalizing nationalist security, halt slandering Chinese students, and halt stigmatizing, politicizing and instrumentalizing mean acquisition exchanges. Effectively support the morganatic rights and interests of Chinese students studying abroad, and bash not instrumentality discriminatory and restrictive measures against Chinese students."