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Pompeo accused Chinese government-funded institutions of working to recruit “spies and collaborators” at US universities. The top US diplomat said: “I think people will see the risk that these institutions carry. These institutions can see that and I hope that we will close all Confucius Institutes first.” Last year”.
Last month, Pompeo called the US Confucius Institutes management center “An entity that promotes Beijing’s propaganda and influence” and asked the center to register in the US as a foreign mission.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expects the Chinese Confucius Institute cultural center on the US university campus to close. Photo: Reuters
Pompeo also mentioned the actions that the Donald Trump administration has taken to limit the activities of Chinese companies like Huawei and said the United States will take next steps.
David Stilwell, America’s top East Asia diplomat, once said that dozens of Confucius Institutes were not removed from the American university campus, but that universities should “keep an eye on” what they were doing in the mold. School staff.
In another development, Hao Zhang, Professor from China, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the United States after being charged with theft of trade secrets and economic espionage.
Hao was indicted in 2015 during a campaign to crack down on intellectual property theft in China, which began under former President Barack Obama and continued under the administration of President Donald Trump. aimed at Chinese scientists and academics studying in the US.
Hao Zhang, a professor from China, was sentenced to 18 months in prison in the United States. Photo: Bloomberg
Five other Chinese nationals accused of Zhang have yet to be arrested. Zhang colluded with a colleague at the University of Southern California to steal and sell American secrets to the Chinese government and military through a front company in the Cayman Islands.
At the Sept. 1 trial, Judge Edward Dávila in court in San Jose, California, asked the professor to compensate the victims of his robbery $ 477,000, including two small tech companies, and suggested he landed him in prison in California.
Xuan Mai (according to Reuters, Bloomberg)
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