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Microsoft was using engineers in China
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to maintain the Department of Defense's computers
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. ICE arrests Chinese nationals
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defrauding elderly citizens.
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And the US is fighting back against CCP influence
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on American campuses.
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Then more on this week's China news headlines.
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Welcome to China andensored. I'm Chris Chapel
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. This episode is sponsored by Surf Shark
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. Whenever you go online, you really should be using a VPN like Surf Shark
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to cover your tracks and protect your identity
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. I'll tell you more in a bit
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. You know, when I started this show over a decade ago
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, I hoped I could warn
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people about the dangers of trusting the Chinese Communist Party.
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This has been a depressing week for me
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because this new report by ProPublica
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exposed a littleknown Microsoft program
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that could expose the Defense Department to Chinese hackers
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. Microsoft has engineers in China
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doing tech support
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for US Defense Department computer systems
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. Let me say this again.
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Engineers in China are maintaining the
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US military's computer systems.
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How could this happen, you ask, screaming into the void?
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Well, because technically
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Microsoft is following the Defense Department's requirements
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. There are US
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citizens overseeing these engineers in China
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. But as ProPublica says, these workers
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, known as digital escorts, often
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lack the technical expertise to police
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foreign engineers with far more advanced skills
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. It makes sense they were called
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digital escorts because Microsoft just
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hoarded out America.
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Might it be a problem to have Chinese
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engineers working on the defense
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department's computers? You know, since
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national intelligence calls China the
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most active and persistent cyber threat
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to US government, private sector, and
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critical infrastructure networks. ,
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Well according to ProPublica, the Defense
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Department didn't even know that
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Microsoft was doing this.
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And don't worry, this program has been going on for only a decade.
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Program is only used for information below classified
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. But the real concern
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is whether this was a gateway for Chinese hackers
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. China hacks the US a lot
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. You see, I wonder if there's a connection
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. At least on the bright side,
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it seems I'll have plenty of content for
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this show for another decade.
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Join me. Leave a honeypot emoji in the comments below.
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Two Chinese illegal immigrants were
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arrested for plotting to scam elderly
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Americans out of their life savings. On
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May 29th, Ice Buffalo arrested Ru Yan,
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who they say tried to defraud an elderly
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couple out of their $20,000 savings.
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And this month, Ice Buffalo also apprehended
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Jen Chen, who they say successfully
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defrauded an elderly woman out of
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$42,000.
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I think seniors in New York are going to
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need an upgraded version of Life Alert.
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Chen sought another $98,000 from the
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same woman and made plans to meet her,
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but met ICE agents instead.
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These two aren't the first. Last
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October, ICE arrested a man named Hay
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Chen for attempting to defraud a local
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senior citizen out of $40,000.
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I know ICE is controversial right now,
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but I think we can all agree that
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illegal Chinese immigrants scamming
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money out of senior citizens transcends
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the American leftright political divide.
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But maybe I'm just too brighteyed and innocent
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. Let's change that.
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I've been reporting how the EU has actually been
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standing up to the Chinese Communist Party
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. Well, not anymore.
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Spain has chosen Huawei, the Chinese military-link
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telecom company, to store and manage
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digital intelligence wire taps.
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Some Spanish national police are none too
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happy about this given the obvious
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threat it poses to national security and the state's data
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. Glad to hear that
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unlike Microsoft, they're fans of the
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show or just have common sense.
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But the same can't be said for the socialist government in Madrid
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. Huawei is apparently supplying its very own
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high-performance storage servers to keep
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the data as if anything made in China's high performance
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. But give horrifying
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credit where horrifying credit is due.
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The CCP is great at monitoring its own people
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. Of course, Huawei says that it
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won't pass on any of the collected data
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to the Chinese government, but if you believe that
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, I've got a bridge to sell you
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. It's probably going to collapse
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since it was made in China.
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But this is how China always divides the EU.
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They find the weak link and exploit it. And
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after the break, China's grip on US
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colleges and universities might be loosening
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Welcome back. The director of the
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Princeton University Press, a nonprofit
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publisher with close ties to Princeton
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University, has been accused of
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campaigning to whitewash the Weaguer genocide
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. So what is she saying?
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Instead of concentration camps, they're sleepa
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away camps where they get to sleep forever.
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During a recent trip to China, Christy
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Henry had this to say about her visit to
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Qashqar, a city in Shinjang.
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Qashqar, ancient city, is a magical place
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. I wish I could bring all of the world here
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. So many cultures meet here,
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and it's a way for the world to see how
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cultures can peacefully coexist and
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exist in harmony.
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and I can't wait to help tell this story
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to the rest of the world, particularly
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to the English-speaking world.
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Yeah, it's amazing how peacefully people
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can coexist when you round up an entire
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group and send them to Forever Sleepaway Camp
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. Henry's trip was sponsored by, you
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won't believe this, the Chinese
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government.
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Here's something I'd like to show the world
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. Magical, ain't it? Since they
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took an entire population and are trying
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to make them disappear. Seeing what this
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publisher did for a free vacation, I
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shudder to think what she'd do for a Klondike bar.
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It's maybe for reasons like this that
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House Republicans are urging US
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universities to cut ties with the
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Chinabacked Scholarship Program. That
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would be the China Scholarship Council or CSC
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. Each year, it sponsors hundreds
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of Chinese graduate students to attend
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US colleges and universities.
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But after graduating, they're required to return
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to China for at least two years, which
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is exciting because who wants to stay
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longer for wild end of the year dorm
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parties when you can go back to an
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abysmal job market and compete with
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hundreds of millions of other desperate young people
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? Fun. The House Select
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Committee on the Chinese Communist Party
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describes this as a threat to national
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security since the CSC cooperates with the CCP
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. Republican Representative John
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Molinar of Michigan, who chairs the committee
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, said CSSE purports to be a
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joint scholarship program between US and
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Chinese institutions.
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However, in reality, it is a CCP managed technology
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transfer effort that exploits US
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institutions and directly supports
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China's military and scientific growth.
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And they're getting scholarships to do it
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. This is the one time I wish more
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people lied about their ethnicity to try
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and get scholarships.
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They're not frauds, they're blocking spies.
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Beyond intellectual theft and espionage,
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there's also the campaign to spy on and
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intimidate other Chinese students who
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are critical of the CCP.
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Can't have Chinese students getting a taste of freedom now, can we?
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But in many cases,
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the students who get a CSSE scholarship
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are forced to do the CCP's dirty work
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because Chinese police will threaten
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their families back in China if they don't
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. Yes, truly a magical place.
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