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For three months, a Chinese spy targeted me as part of an elaborate entrapment operation of female American students. For the first time, I'm speaking out and revealing his tactics. This is my warning to my fellow students: https://t.co/OnVqX5OidI
thetimes.com
For three months a catfish bombarded me with messages, trying to lure me to China with promises of money and fame. Now, I’m revealing his tactics
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Stanford students being targeted by the CCP. Not new but a good recent article. Be careful out there. You might not be interested in geopolitics and WW3 but it sure is interested in you.
For three months, a Chinese spy targeted me as part of an elaborate entrapment operation of female American students. For the first time, I'm speaking out and revealing his tactics. This is my warning to my fellow students: https://t.co/OnVqX5OidI
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Very proud of my friend @elsajohnson on her great piece in The Times. I encourage all those who are new to our work to checkout our original investigation. More to come!!! https://t.co/NLGcvygqOf
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This summer, a CCP agent impersonated a Stanford student. Under the alias Charles Chen, he approached several students through social media. Anna*, a Stanford student conducting sensitive research on...
For three months, a Chinese spy targeted me as part of an elaborate entrapment operation of female American students. For the first time, I'm speaking out and revealing his tactics. This is my warning to my fellow students: https://t.co/OnVqX5OidI
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Exclusive: I’m a Stanford student. A Chinese agent tried to recruit me as a spy. For months a man bombarded Elsa Johnson with messages, trying to lure her to China with promises of money and fame. Now, she reveals his chilling tactics in @thetimes. https://t.co/Lo1yS85bjW
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For three months a catfish bombarded me with messages, trying to lure me to China with promises of money and fame. Now, I’m revealing his tactics
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For three months, a Chinese spy targeted @elsajohnson as part of an elaborate entrapment operation of female American students. For the first time, she's speaking out and revealing his tactics. This is her warning to her fellow students: https://t.co/OV3XXAlfqV
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For three months a catfish bombarded me with messages, trying to lure me to China with promises of money and fame. Now, I’m revealing his tactics
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One must not forget about the national security implications of this policy:
INVESTIGATION: Uncovering Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford. After interviewing multiple anonymous Stanford faculty, students, and China experts, the Review can confirm that the CCP is orchestrating a widespread intelligence-gathering campaign at Stanford. 1/8
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tapping this sign:
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Stanford student @elsajohnson tells @DynamistPod's host @SayreEvan how the administration reacted to her reporting on the CCP��s exploitation of exchange student programs to collect data. Her reporting with @MolloyGarret exposes Beijing’s systematic intelligence network on U.S.
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Blindly embracing academic cooperation with China, our greatest geopolitical rival, is absurd. Nobody suggests we train Iranian nuclear physicists or Russian ballistics engineers. Why make an exception for a nation seeking to crush us in emerging tech?
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It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 @elsajohnson and @MolloyGarret join @SayreEvan to discuss their staggering investigation: a network of Chinese spies at Stanford 🧵
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Was honored to host these courageous students talking about attempts by Chinese interests to steal tech information & more at Stanford. Worth a watch—>
Conversation on Foreign Influence on College Campuses, @Heritage hosts – LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/G9UwyY2aB5
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Conversation on Foreign Influence on College Campuses, @Heritage hosts – LIVE at 10am ET on C-SPAN https://t.co/G9UwyY2aB5
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Join FAI’s own @elsajohnson virtually at 10am today for an event tackling hostile foreign influence on American college campuses. At @Heritage, Elsa will share her findings on CCP intelligence-gathering at Stanford and join a discussion about infiltration threats in higher ed.
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Security vulnerabilities run rampant in America's research programs. This week, @DanLips, @LarsESchonander, and @elsajohnson broke down their plan to secure our research enterprise. Read more to learn how we can protect US R&D from interference from foreign adversaries. 🔗👇
With @DanLips and @elsajohnson, we write about how to improve research security, based on our collective experience dealing with research security risks in government and as private citizens.
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With @DanLips and @elsajohnson, we write about how to improve research security, based on our collective experience dealing with research security risks in government and as private citizens.
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labubus are a product of the ccp propaganda machine
Seeing full-grown women clip Labubu charms to their handbags You can really convince 90% of people to hop on the popular trend
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Wrote about @Cluely, @McKinsey and the scourge of Economic Nihilism for @palladiummag
https://t.co/DEymNOll43
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As American frontier AI labs get slammed with copyright lawsuits, the CCP is creating data exchanges to make training data more accessible. For @lawfare, @timhwang & @JoshuaTLevine urge US policymakers to compete by enshrining a protection for AI training in copyright law. 🔗⬇️
Latest on Copyright and AI from @timhwang and me. Couple points that I think are worth highlighting:
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When several top engineers at Deepseek have been trained at Microsoft's labs in Beijing, it's time to confront how America's tech giants have empowered a rival's techno-authoritarian agenda New from @LarsESchonander and me in @TheNatlInterest
https://t.co/prxq9gVWcK
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Microsoft’s China ties advanced authoritarian AI, exposing risks of US tech collaboration with adversaries. In January, when a little-known Chinese AI startup called DeepSeek stunned the tech...
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