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2·2 days agoAustralian University students and staff face increasing threats, foreign interference inquiry finds – (2022)
[Australian] Universities face escalating threats to students and to national security from hostile forces, a report into foreign interference has warned […] The report […] specifically singled out Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes, a $10m deal between Monash University and a Chinese company linked to industrial espionage, and talent recruitment drives that see Australian researchers work with universities overseas.
Finland shuts down Confucius Institute amid censorship, espionage accusations – (2022)
A cooperation contract between Helsinki University and the Confucius Institute will be terminated following accusations of spreading Chinese soft power, conducting espionage, and an attempt to block discussions on Tibet. […] Belgium closed its Confucius Institute in 2019, Sweden and Denmark in 2020, and Norway in 2021.
Chinese students signing a “loyalty” pledges to the Chinese motherland before arriving in their host country, as shows the example of Sweden.
Chinese students signing “loyalty” pledges before arrival in Sweden – (2023)
International doctoral students who are arriving in Sweden from China are being told to sign agreements and guidelines to the Chinese government, an investigation has revealed […] The Chinese regime requires that they also must “serve the interests of the regime” and “never participate in ‘activities’ that go against the will of the authorities”, the report said.
Sweden, Germany, and many other countries have been cutting ties with the China scholarship scheme over this practice already.
And these are just a few examples. There is much more.
3·2 days agoAustralian University students and staff face increasing threats, foreign interference inquiry finds – (2022)
[Australian] Universities face escalating threats to students and to national security from hostile forces, a report into foreign interference has warned […] The report […] specifically singled out Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes, a $10m deal between Monash University and a Chinese company linked to industrial espionage, and talent recruitment drives that see Australian researchers work with universities overseas.
Finland shuts down Confucius Institute amid censorship, espionage accusations – (2022)
A cooperation contract between Helsinki University and the Confucius Institute will be terminated following accusations of spreading Chinese soft power, conducting espionage, and an attempt to block discussions on Tibet. […] Belgium closed its Confucius Institute in 2019, Sweden and Denmark in 2020, and Norway in 2021.
Chinese students signing a “loyalty” pledges to the Chinese motherland before arriving in their host country, as shows the example of Sweden.
Chinese students signing “loyalty” pledges before arrival in Sweden – (2023)
International doctoral students who are arriving in Sweden from China are being told to sign agreements and guidelines to the Chinese government, an investigation has revealed […] The Chinese regime requires that they also must “serve the interests of the regime” and “never participate in ‘activities’ that go against the will of the authorities”, the report said.
Sweden, Germany, and many other countries have been cutting ties with the China scholarship scheme over this practice already.
And these are just a few examples. There is much more.
1·3 days agoYeah, and the article the user @technocrit posted before that in this community is from 2021.
This is report is more than 3 years old.
This is a rhetorical question, right?
Predatory Sparrow is distinguished most of all by its apparent interest in sending a specific geopolitical message with its attacks, says Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade, an analyst at cybersecurity firm SentinelOne who has tracked the group for years. Those messages are all variations on a theme: If you attack Israel or its allies, we have the ability to deeply disrupt your civilization.
I am not sure if this ‘specific geopitical message’ is so unique to Israel. This is what countries like China , Russia, and others are doing as well, aren’t they?
Seems Israel and China are competing to sell their spyware to world.
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I get your point, but we shouldn’t forget that cheap products are often cheap because people elsewhere pay the price through low salaries, and sometimes no salaries at all. Not that I think that Trump would care about these people (or any people), but tariffs are a bit more complex than what Trump describes here as we know.
The Theranos case is not a scientific fraud in that sense if I understand the article correctly. Holmes had raised hundreds of millions of USD over several years before the first scientist even joined the Theranos board. They apoarently never had a technical (and assumably no financial) due diligence for their ‘blood test’, let alone a research paper. I’d call that a financial fraud, not a scientific fraud.
@ulkesh I would just add that he is supporting the NRA (their lobbying might be one reason for this ‘opinion’), but I fully agree with what you’ve said.
Maybe, we can’t be sure nowadays.
The site/URL was first registered on 1997-11-14, though, and the NYT is featuring him also at https://www.nytimes.com/events/climate-forward-2024
The content spread by the right-wing creators is misi.formation, not the linked article itself. I edited the title a bit to avoid a misunderstanding.
2·9 days agoThey have now, if and when they coordinate and cooperate between themselves, according to the researcher:
Africa’s voice is minimal in the agenda-setting, due mostly to the multiplicity of African states, African Union weakness and competing needs among African countries.
@PatheticGroundThing It really helps if you read the entire article before posting.
It’s in the article:
Why the company chose to hire human cosplayers for last week’s World Robot Conference remains unclear. Were they hired as “booth babes,” an outdated and sexist form of promotion? Or were they purposefully there to trick attendees into thinking they were robots?
Given the reception of the videos on social media, it’s possible it’s a mix of both.
Japan lodged a protest with China after one of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters on Aug 31, the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese military in less than a week - (Archived)
An uptick in Chinese military activity near Japan and around Taiwan in recent years has stoked concerns in Tokyo.
Japan has responded with a defence buildup that it says aims to deter Beijing from using military force to push its territorial claims in the region.
Japan lodged a protest with China after one of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters on Aug 31, the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese military in less than a week - (Archived)
An uptick in Chinese military activity near Japan and around Taiwan in recent years has stoked concerns in Tokyo.
Japan has responded with a defence buildup that it says aims to deter Beijing from using military force to push its territorial claims in the region.
Yeah, but now it gets really weird:
Totally normal response’: Trump blasted for threatening ABC’s license after debate flop – [archived]