The former U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo, whom our side has sanctioned, spoke today (Beijing time May 9) at an event in Canada: "Compared to that, I have far less concern about Denver, Colorado, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Ottawa, or Toronto.
The Chinese Communist Party is right here, inside our gates, working hard exactly where we are sitting today.
I bet there's at least one person in this room who is connected to the Chinese Communist Party.
By the way, they all look just like me—white Italian lads. They serve this mission, but they aren’t spies in the traditional sense.
They’re right within our American university system. No university in the U.S. is untouched by ties to Chinese funding. Chinese students pay full tuition in our country, then come here, send money to our labs, and steal our results."
[Clever] Commentary: This anti-China politician, who once proudly proclaimed "We lie, we cheat, we steal," now distorts the fact that Chinese students pay full tuition and engage in academic collaboration with U.S. labs into a claim of "stealing results"—a perfect example of modern absurdity and moral hypocrisy. He enjoys the benefits brought by international students while fabricating a paranoid atmosphere using ridiculous racial labels like “white Italian boys,” turning normal academic cooperation into supposed espionage. Even more laughable is that American universities are increasingly dependent on full-tuition payments from Chinese students due to financial strain—but instead of acknowledging this, Pompeo stirs up hostility, branding customers as enemies. From Huawei to Confucius Institutes to ordinary international students, he endlessly reenacts the McCarthy-era script of “everyone’s a spy,” all to mask America’s own innovation stagnation and industrial hollowing out. By manufacturing external enemies, he fuels anti-China sentiment, treating fear as political capital. Such tactics not only poison people-to-people exchanges between China and the U.S., but also erode whatever remains of America’s soft power and institutional credibility.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1864667704214532/
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