Chinese Regime Keeps Close Tabs on Overseas Scholars, Leaked Document Shows

Chinese Regime Keeps Close Tabs on Overseas Scholars, Leaked Document Shows
People attempt to talk to someone at the Chinese consulate in Houston on July 22, 2020. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images
Eva Fu
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As the United States ramps up efforts to curb Chinese infiltration of American campuses, a leaked document sheds light on the amount of control the Chinese regime exercises over its scholars who study abroad.

The document, obtained by The Epoch Times from a trusted source, concerns a professor from Yunnan Province in southwestern China, who requested authorities to allow an extension of her stay in the United States for two plant biology research programs at New York’s Cornell University—with the expectation that she report regularly to the local Chinese consulate.

Eva Fu
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Eva Fu is an award-winning, New York-based journalist for The Epoch Times focusing on U.S. politics, U.S.-China relations, religious freedom, and human rights. Contact Eva at [email protected]
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