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Received the below email several days ago from a frequent contributor and good friend. Events in the Middle East caused me to neglect publishing it sooner. 


I have made various references through the years to how I got so involved in China and so...interested...in Song Yaowu.  I will summarize here as it has relevance to the email from Wang Yi.  After coming back from Beijing in June, 2006 I picked up MacFarquhar and Schoenhals "Mao's Last Revolution." Travel can stimulate learning and I wanted to learn more. I was enjoying the book when I came to the photographs section in the middle and saw what I have previously termed, "The Picture,"  such was it's impact: Yaowu pinning a Red Guard armband onto Mao.  It was a deja vu moment. Somewhere, somehow, I had seen that picture before.  And her name before that moment, "Song Binbin," so strange and striking in its rhythm to an American ear. I had heard that name before, I thought. I don't know how or when. I looked the name up in the appendix.  She had immigrated to the United States; worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  If it had not been for that, none of...this...would have happened. It would have been an interesting book, I would have learned some new things, and I would have gone back to writing about Islam.  But that intelligence lit the fire:  HOW THE F*** DID SHE GET INTO THIS COUNTRY!


How the f*** she got into this country was because President Reagan, that non compis mentus fool (I apologize Mr. President, may you rest in peace. You idiot.), was approached timorously by an aide and asked if he would approve the entry of (I'm making this number up because I don't remember exactly) 75,000 young Chinese students to be educated here and learn about America. "Why not 750,000?" said Brown Suits. 


After the Second World War there was this movement;  it was based on the idea that "If only they could see how wonderful America is they would not hate us and we'd have a peaceful world." In other words, somebody got drunk one night.  And so Fulbright Scholarships, this scholarship, that scholarship, here a program, there a program, everywhere a program-program. And EVERY American politician bought into this drunken fantasy, from liberal Democrats to conservative Republicans who would otherwise have been standing on the Mexican border with shotguns.  But whisper "student foreign exchange" in their ears and they put flowers in their shotgun barrels and hold hands and sing "We Are the World." 


One who came to the U.S. via this road of flowers was Sayyid Qutub, who after a stint at the University of Northern Colorado, and a gander at hot American girls, and those hot American girls making out with their friend-boys in American bars, was repulsed at this intermingling of the sexes and went back to Egypt ("We Are All Egyptians," according to Nicholas Kristof al-Yamhill), wrote "In The Shade of the Koran," was imprisoned and martyred by Nasser, and became inspiration for Al Qaeda. So the Road of Flowers did not work out well for America with Sayyid Qutub. 


Nor with Song Yaowu (who was now named Yan Song). Her presence in this country debased America, her existence debases the human race. 


So, of course there are going to be Chinese spies in this country when we open up our parlor doors this wide. 


I do not think that I write in confusing nuance; I do not think one has to search for true meaning in my sentences, but...But, just in case, I will restate as clearly and concisely as I can: I believe that the brother and sisterhood of Man is a drunken fantasy.  We Are All NOT Egyptians, and We Are All NOT Chinese. 


They oppose us, and we must oppose them.






  

Hi Benjamin,

The following is an article I found at CND.org. The Voice of America has
broadcasted it. It says currently Chinese government is establishing the system
of informants in universities or other institutions of higher ed, using
designated students to spy on those among students and professors whose ideas
they believe deviate from the official ideology. They even try to lure visiting
instructors from this country to talk about their views on sensitive topics such

as Taiwan, Tibet, etc. China has become more and more of a police country with

spies everywhere including Chinese communities in this country and others. As I
cautioned you before, in dealing with Chinese, you need to be very careful. Some
people may purposely try to approach you with some dissident ideas. Be alert and
don't be trapped.

Take care.

Wang Yi

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发布者 siyu 在 11-01-27 05:10


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美国中央情报局的一份报告说，在中国的高等院校和职业教育学院等教育场被指定担任信息员的学生向教学部门汇报学生和教师中间的涉嫌政治破坏的观点。

*学生信息员=线人*

美国中央情报局(CIA)2010年11月的一份报告说，中国教育机构和共产党官员正在高校、职业教育学院等教育场所扩大学生信息员制度。报告说，被指定担任信息员的学生向他们所在教学部门汇报学生和教师中间的涉嫌政治破坏和反常观点。


在中国校园信息员制度中的所谓信息员其实就是学校里打小报告的线人。报告说，学生信息员的汇报时常夹杂个人的主观评判，这些信息员的汇报常常导致一些学生的奖学金被撤销或者受到各种处罚。


*教师也受监督*

学生线人也举报教师的所谓“反动”言论。美国一家中文网 站转载了中国华东政法大学杨师群教授两年前发表在中国某门户网站的一篇博文，题目是“有同学告我反革命”。他在博文中讲述了学生到公安局和市教委告他讲课时批评政府的遭遇。杨师群的博客说，上面已经立案侦查他。

北京大学经济学院教授夏业良去年11月5日在推特上发文说，他在讲课时的言论被学生以“反党反社会主义”而举报。他在11月11日接受美国之音记者采访时说，领导找他谈话，说有学生反映他“反党反社会主义”。


*外教被问敏感话题*

学生中的线人不仅举报本校学生和教师，也针对国际人士。一位要求不透姓名的美国青年向美国之音讲述了他在中国一所高校教学时的经历。这位美国人说，他在那所学校时，中国学生经常问一些他对台湾独立，西藏独立等问题的看法。


他说 ：“我在中国教书时，班上有不少学生问问题。但总是有一两个学生问我一些敏感话题，比如，西藏，台湾，新疆，达赖喇嘛，天安门广场事件等。你可以感觉到有些学生就是出于好奇心，而有的学生的提问就让人感到不舒服。”


这位要求不透露姓名的美国人说，他在课堂上有的学生非常直截了当的问他西藏是个独立的国家吗？他还说，有的学生试图得到他的信任，跟他说一些赞成台湾独立的话，后来他在校内网发现这个学生公开讲的是截然相反的观点。


在中国的文化大革命期间，发生了许多学生举报老师、夫妻互相举报，孩子举报父母的事情。

*中情局：‘89’之后即实行信息员制度*

美国中央情报局的报告说，中国重点高校在89年天安门广场事件之后就实行了学生信息员制度。2000年代初，中 国教育部门将信息员制度普及到武汉大学，上海师范大学等省级高校，做为教育改革的一部分。2005年，学生信息员制度进一步扩大到层次更低的学校甚至一些中学。

美国之音记者致电中国教育部，要求证实教育系统的学生信息员制度。教育部新闻司官员要记者送交采访函。记者将采访函传真给新闻司，到截稿时间为止，没有收到中国教育部的回复。


□ 美国之音