Chinese Scientist Accused of Smuggling Samples, Amid Crackdown on Research Theft
The risks of working with Chinese state-owned enterprises are well known. The risks of working with private companies (large and small) in China are are also great with CCP &quot;party cells&quot; officially embedded into at least half of private companies. Less discussed is the China&#x27;s highly-successful &quot;patriotic education&quot; campaign implemented in response to the 1989 pro-democracy protests (the Tiananmen Square massacre). All school children since the mid-1990s have been indoctrinated from birth with a Chinese Communist Party&#x27;s highly-exaggerated historical narrative called the &quot;century of humiliation&quot;. This world view says the US and the European colonial powers held China down between 1839 to 1949, and that only the CCP&#x27;s leadership China will regain its rightful place as global leader. Its false and highly-exaggerated for a number of reasons (China at its historical peak was never more than a regional power, never a global leader, and the CCP has done more to hold China&#x27;s development back than western colonialism and the war with Imperial Japan).<p>Since the patriotic education system came into force in the 1990s, generations of schoolchildren indoctrinated. These students, now adults, have entered the workforce with the ideology continuing to be reinforced by state-propaganda and censorship.<p>This &quot;century of humiliation&quot; mindset is part of what helps justify the China&#x27;s strategy of large scale technology theft (theft is a core component of the Made In China 2025 industrial strategy).<p>Interestingly enough, the CCP promotes its ethno-nationalist ideology far beyond its borders via the United Front Work Department to  try and influence everyone, but especially overseas Chinese diaspora communities. It doesn&#x27;t matter whether someone was born in China, or live as part of an overseas diaspora community, or have Chinese ancestral heritage but have lived for generations in another country, the Chinese Communist Party sees every single ethnically Chinese people in the world as owing allegiance to it, and wants to leverage these people to achieve its goals.<p>Defeating the CCP&#x27;s ethno-nationalist agenda and highly-exaggerated historical narratives will be difficult, but understanding it is the key to fighting back against the widespread theft of advanced technology from developed countries to China.<p>EDIT: Why the downvotes? The &quot;patriotic education&quot; campaign, &quot;century of humiliation&quot; narrative, United Front Work Department and state-led technological theft are all core methods in the CCP&#x27;s strategy (leading situations like the one in the featured article). If you think this comment is reasonable and meets the guidelines, please view it via the permalink and then &#x27;vouch&#x27; it.