“[C]ompared to the people in China protesting now, the risk I took is much lower,” the student told Campus Reform.
Chinese students at GWU allege on one of the flyers that a network of CCP spies quell dissidents organizing on college campuses. Their allegations reflect a larger trend on American college campuses. According to ProPublica, Chinese intelligence officers use “online surveillance and an array of informants” to identify students who speak unfavorably about the CCP and intimidate their families back in China.
In China, individuals dubbed dissidents face punishment from the Chinese government. Anti-communist activists in China disappear, are held at psychiatric wards, and have their families threatened and trapped in their homes.
Posters at George Washington University were torn down, the Athenai Institute reports on its Twitter. Athenai Institute is a “student-founded, bipartisan nonprofit leading the movement for universities to divest from the Chinese Communist Party’s atrocities.”
[DS–Good thing they weren’t trying to protest COVID lockdowns in Trudeau’s Canada. They might have gotten the Chinese treatment!]
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