Universities Helping China, on Your Tax Dollars! By James Reed

     It appears that a sizeable number of Chinese students are government agents, which is not really all that surprising since China is, after all, a communist state:
  http://military.china.com.cn/2013-01/21/content_27745747.htm
  http://mil.news.sina.com.cn/2013-08-27/0820737486.html

     That being so, the next logical step is for the Chinese commo party to train its cadre in Australia, because, Australia has no national pride and just wants to disappear down the plug hole of history:
  https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/from-student-to-drone-swarms-how-the-chinese-communist-party-trains-its-cadres-in-australia-20181108-p50evg.html

“In 2009, a student called Wang Xiangke came to the Australian National University as a visiting PhD scholar. … But Wang Xiangke was no ordinary international student from China, one of the thousands of aspiring scholars rightly embraced by Australia’s tertiary education sector. Instead, Wang was sent here by the People’s Liberation Army’s National University of Defence Technology (NUDT) as part of its program to use global academic expertise to achieve military ends. … But more important than his publications were the training and skills he received from ANU. He came to learn from Australia, not to share the PLA’s secrets. China's National University of Defence Technology claims that all students it sends overseas are Chinese Communist Party members: “The environment overseas is different; one can’t avoid coming into direct contact with all kinds of harmful ideologies and even anti-CCP and anti-Chinese rhetoric," one university party official explained. "Because of this, we must strongly emphasise the educational management of party members studying abroad, firmly casting a line of ideological defence.”

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Scientists like Wang are required to return to China on time after studying or working overseas. A People's Liberation Army newspaper claims that in recent years “100 per cent of the scientists sent abroad by NUDT returned on time, becoming key forces in their work units”. It’s this kind of upskilling that the Chinese military hopes to achieve from sending its best and brightest overseas. The focus on cultivating better talent for the PLA suggests that it’s no longer just aspiring to reach the level of the West with some help from stolen technology, but to go beyond the West in areas of military technology, to exceed the capabilities of Western militaries in areas such as missiles, aircraft, radar and unmanned vehicles. Developing better unmanned vehicles for the Chinese military is precisely what Wang now aspires to do, having benefited from ANU’s world-class experts, resources and facilities.

“Unmanned combat is the commanding height of applied artificial intelligence; we must rush to occupy it!” Wang told Chinese reporters in 2017. Wang is now an associate professor at the NUDT, where the military has explicitly designated him as a scholar of exceptional potential. He is chief technician of a classified military project whose name and subject have not been released to the public. His PhD thesis, in part the product of his work at ANU, has also not been released publicly, suggesting its contents are also classified.”

     Does that make you feel that you are living in a nation of suckers? How pathetic this country is. But, there is much more, as Australian universities are actively helping the commo Chinese surpass the United States, for what will be world domination:
  https://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-universities-are-helping-chinas-military-surpass-the-united-states-20171024-gz780x.html

“In Beijing, President Xi Jinping is systematically reforming and strengthening the military - part of the Strong Army Dream that is intimately tied to his signature slogan "the China Dream". But it now seems that this Strong Army Dream is being realised with Australian help. Scientists at Australian universities are collaborating with China's top military technology universities on programs beneficial to the People's Liberation Army which, contrary to its name, is the army of the Chinese Communist Party rather than the Chinese people. The scientists' work includes sophisticated computing seen as essential to China's ambition to eclipse the United States in advanced military technology.

The man at the centre of many exchanges with Australian universities is Lieutenant-General Yang Xuejun, who has been a Communist Party member since the 1980s and was a promoted to the party's powerful Central Committee at this week's 19th Party Congress. The Congress reappointed Xi as party chairman for another five-year term and elevated him to a status alongside Mao Zedong as a great leader. Until recently Yang was president of the PLA's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT). One of the PLA's leading supercomputer experts, he is now president of the PLA Academy of Military Science, China's foremost military research centre. Scientists at the University of NSW and the University of Technology Sydney have worked with Yang, whose research with Australian scientists has resulted in over a dozen scientific papers, mostly on supercomputer technology. In a recent Chinese CCTV propaganda documentary, he highlighted the importance of supercomputer research in China's military plans. NUDT supercomputers are used in advanced aircraft design, combat simulation and the testing of tactical nuclear weapons.”

     Talk about digging our own graves, only the cosmopolitan university types do not think in terms of the nation and “our,” but only in universalist terms, because that is how they have been manufactured. Therefore universities are a national security threat, and need to be closed down, at least until this is sorted out. No military research with potential enemies should be conducted. The alternative is that the United States sees these universities as threats to the United States security, and does … who knows what … US drone attacks? That would be ironic!