How China Turns Stanford Students Into Spies
- Two Stanford sophomores investigated how Chinese intelligence operatives targeted students on their campus during 2024 in the Bay Area, California.
- Their investigation followed few prior reports detailing China's espionage methods at elite U.S. Universities amid widespread concerns over Beijing's efforts to steal military and technology secrets.
- The inquiry revealed a man known as Charles Chen posing as a Stanford student who contacted mostly female students researching China-related topics, offering trips and urging secure communication through CCP-monitored WeChat.
- One student named Anna described a three-part coercion process: targeting, administering loyalty tests, and demanding intelligence be sent back, while Chen advised travel plans to avoid visa scrutiny and deleting evidence.
- The report highlights a significant national security threat, prompting Stanford to affirm strong protections against espionage, while critics call for public acknowledgment and careful vetting of foreign students to safeguard research integrity.
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There have been hundreds of stories in recent years about China’s efforts to use its vast intelligence-gathering apparatus to steal America’s military and technological secrets. But there has been much less written about how that apparatus operates on elite college campuses. It was precisely that void that prompted two Stanford sophomores, Garret Molloy and Elsa Johnson, to try to document China’s intelligence-gathering at the university. Their …
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