by Robert Spencer, FrontPage Mag:
Chinese, Russian, and Islamic agendas are taking over America’s K-12 schools and colleges.
The pervasive homegrown progressive forces, which emphasize politics, sex, and race—all from a radical perspective—have become entrenched in our education system in recent years. But growing evidence shows that foreign enemy influence has also become a factor in the indoctrination of our students.
A report by DefendingEd, released in August, reveals that for decades the Chinese government and its affiliates have been engaged in a global campaign called the ‘Belt and Road Initiative,’ designed to advance Red China’s political and cultural agenda. This ongoing effort includes programs intended to influence how young people in the U.S. view China, targeting K-12 and university students.
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To underscore the seriousness of this diabolical plan, in November 2023, Chinese President Xi Jinping invited 50,000 U.S. students to study in China over the next five years through the Young Envoys Scholarship (YES) program.
The Diplomat discloses that these U.S.-China exchanges serve a political function for China and have been “sponsored, carefully narrated visits attached to institutions and trumpeted in official state media accounts, often in ways that serve Chinese cultural diplomacy interests.”
The DefendingEd report indicates that at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools in 30 states exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the YES program.
In reality, China is likely home to the world’s most tyrannical government, guided by a totalitarian ideology and ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. It deprives citizens of their rights on a sweeping scale and systematically curtails freedoms to retain power. As the U.S. State Department explains, “People in China cannot practice the religion or belief of their choice. They cannot express their opinions openly or form or join groups of their choosing without fear of harassment, arrest, or retribution. Members of minority groups are subject to mass arbitrary detention, Orwellian-style surveillance, political indoctrination, torture, forced abortions and sterilization, and state-sponsored forced labor.” Notably, the Chinese government systematically detains and persecutes both Uyghur Muslims and Falun Gong practitioners.
But the ominous assault on our students is not limited to China. Since 1996, Emzari Gelashvilli, a former Georgian intelligence official who reviewed KGB operational archives, has documented the systematic use of active Soviet measures to infiltrate Western educational institutions.
His findings show that the ideological transformation of American and other Western universities is not the product of organic domestic political evolution alone. At a minimum, it reflects external actors’ successful exploitation of institutional vulnerabilities—chiefly the Soviet Union’s intelligence apparatus, whose documented objectives align with the outcomes now visible on many U.S. campuses.
