A Scholar Escaped China Two Decades Ago. Now He’s Warning About Beijing’s Infiltration in America.
Zhang Tianliang, senior fellow at the Consilium Institute and professor at Fei Tian College, in Cuddebackville, N.Y., on May 10, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
Zhang Tianliang, senior fellow at the Consilium Institute and professor at Fei Tian College, in Cuddebackville, N.Y., on May 10, 2026. Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times
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A Scholar Escaped China Two Decades Ago. Now He’s Warning About Beijing’s Infiltration in America.

Having walked out of Chinese communist indoctrination, a scholar and historian hopes to offer America an anti-dote.
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By Eva Fu
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All Zhang Tianliang’s faith in the Communist Party crumbled right there, in a large state auditorium in Beijing.

They had all been waiting there, hundreds of them, shut inside since the morning on a sweltering day in July 1999, bewildered.

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