Spy Studies: Chinese Agents Pose as College Students

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Students at Stanford University recently uncovered a group of Chinese
agents posing as students trying to gain access to sensitive
research and Intel data. Author in China expert Gordon Chang
says this is just one example at one university.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
This is going on every place where there is valuable
intellectual property for China to seal. So this has been
going on for decades. We've known about it, we know
how the Chinese do it, so this is really on us.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
He adds that our leaders have been too lax and
allowing this to continue. In twenty twenty, at Chinese national
posing as a Stanford student was indicted, but the charges
were dropped on a technicality. Corey Jolson, who's Radio seven
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