By Bill Gertz
China is infiltrating American universities and research centers in a bid to build up its power, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday.
“Americans must know how the [Chinese Communist Party] is poisoning the well of our higher education for its own ends, and how those actions degrade our freedoms and our national security,” Mr. Pompeo said in a speech at Georgia Tech University.
Mr. Pompeo in his remarks recalled how a Georgia Tech professor, Wang Feiling, was kidnapped by Chinese authorities several years ago during a visit there.
“They wanted information about his research in China, and his time teaching at my alma mater, West Point. They thought they could intimidate him — or recruit him — because he’s ethnically Chinese,” he said.
The professor was released after pressure from the university.
But Mr. Pompeo said the lesson from the incident “is clear: The Chinese Communist Party wants what we have, and it’ll do whatever it takes to get it, from stealing our stuff to pressuring critics of [China] to keep quiet.”
Mr. Pompeo said Beijing’s goal is to dominate the United States and the free world, a goal that many in the West had not recognized until recently.
“But Mr. Pompeo said the lesson from the incident “is clear: The Chinese Communist Party wants what we have, and it’ll do whatever it takes to get it, from stealing our stuff to pressuring critics of [China] to keep quiet.”
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