Josh Rogin - Chaos Under Heaven

211 “ do the right thing”: Kevin Cirilli and Nick Wadhams, “Pompeo Urges China to ‘Do the Right Thing’ in Hong Kong Protests,” Bloomberg, July 25, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2020-coronavirus-dash/.

211 he said: Vivian Salama, “White House Told Officials to Go Easy on China over Hong Kong,” Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-tells-officials-to-go-easy-on-china-over-hong-kong-11564607899.

211 massing thousands of police: Joe Tacopino, “US Monitoring Hong Kong as Chinese Forces Amass at Border,” New York Post, July 30, 2019, https://nypost.com/2019/07/30/us-monitoring-hong-kong-border-as-chinese-forces-gather-en-masse/.

211 social media tagline: Global Times (@globaltimesnews), “A blunt warning for #Hong-Kong secessionists and their foreign backers? First, the PLA’s Hong Kong garrison commander vowed to safeguard Hong Kong’s stability; then shortly after, the #garrison said it has the confidence to protect HK,” Twitter, July 31, 2019, 9:27 a.m., https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1156602387835940864.

211 CCP rule by tweeting: Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Twitter, October 1, 2019, 3:54 a.m., https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1178986524630802432.

211 Hawley’s statement: “Senator Hawley Statement on the 70th Anniversary of the People’s Republic of China,” Senator Josh Hawley, October 1, 2019, https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-statement-70th-anniversary-peoples-republic-china.

212 wrote a story: Josh Rogin, “Trump and McConnell Are Failing the People of Hong Kong,” Washington Post, November 7, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-and-mcconnell-are-failing-the-people-of-hong-kong/2019/11/07/913af586-0193-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html.

212 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: Mitch McConnell, “We Stand with Hong Kong,” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2019, https://www.wsj.com/articles/we-stand-with-hong-kong-11566341474.

12. WAKING UP

216 established in 2004: “Confucius Institutes Rebrand After Overseas Propaganda and Influence Rows,” South China Morning Post, July 4, 2020, https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3091837/chinas-confucius-institutes-rebrand-after-overseas-propaganda.

217 closed the institute: Joseph Baucum, “UWF Cuts Ties with Controversial Chinese-Affiliated Confucius Institute,” Pensacola News Journal, February 7, 2018, https://www.pnj.com/story/money/business/2018/02/07/uwf-cuts-ties-chinese-run-confucius-institute-criticized-controversial-chinese-government-affiliated/312966002/.

217 back and forth: “Florida-China Linkage Institute,” University of West Florida, accessed September 30, 2020, https://uwf.edu/academic-engagement-and-student-affairs/departments/international-affairs/scholarships-and-linkages/florida-china-linkage-institute/.

217 bragged: Josh Rogin, “Pentagon Barred from Funding Confucius Institutes on American Campuses,” Washington Post, August 14, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/08/14/pentagon-barred-from-funding-confucius-institutes-on-american-campuses/.

218 closed their Confucius Institutes: Hannah Critchfield, “ASU Joins 15 Other Universities in Closing Confucius Institute,” Phoenix New Times, August 23, 2019, https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/asu-joins-15-other-universities-in-closing-confucius-institute-11348296.

218 closed the institute: Josh Rogin, “America’s Universities Are Finally Waking Up to the China Threat,” Washington Post, April 4, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/americas-universities-are-finally-waking-up-to-the-china-threat/2019/04/04/1b21e616-5716-11e9-9136-f8e636f1f6df_story.html.

218 According to a report: Rachelle Peterson, “Outsourced to China: Confucius Institutes and Soft Power in American Higher Education,” National Association of Scholars, April 7, 2017, https://www.nas.org/reports/outsourced-to-china/full-report.

219 “ that is cowardice”: Confucius, The Analects, trans. Simon Leys (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997), xvii at 2.24.

219 used these student organizations: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, “China’s Long Arm Reaches into American Campuses,” Foreign Policy, March 7, 2018, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/03/07/chinas-long-arm-reaches-into-american-campuses-chinese-students-scholars-association-university-communist-party/.

219 have increased vastly: Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, “Chinese Government Gave Money to Georgetown Chinese Student Group,” Foreign Policy, February 14, 2018, https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/02/14/exclusive-chinese-government-gave-money-to-georgetown-chinese-student-group-washington-china-communist-party-influence/.

219 a 2016 directive: Chris Buckley, “China Says Its Students, Even Those Abroad, Need More ‘Patriotic Education,’” New York Times, February 10, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/world/asia/china-patriotic-education.html.

220 told the New York Times: Stephanie Saul, “On Campuses Far from China, Still Under Beijing’s Watchful Eye,” New York Times, May 4, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-western-campuses-china-influence.html.

220 University of California, San Diego, announced: Judy Piercey and Christine Clark, “Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to Speak at UC San Diego Commencement,” UC San Diego News Center, February 2, 2017, https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/tenzin_gyatso_his_holiness_the_14th_dalai_lama_to_speak_at_uc_san_diego.

220 admitted they had spoken: “Chinese Student Organizations Denounce Dalai Lama as Commencement Speaker,” Triton, February 3, 2017, https://triton.news/2017/02/chinese-student-organizations-denounce-dalai-lama-commencement-speaker/.

220 Chinese government retaliated: Larry Diamond and Orville Schell, eds., China’s Influence & American Interests: Promoting Constructive Vigilance, Report of the Working Group on Chinese Influence Activities in the United States (Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution, Stanford University, November 29, 2018), https://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/research/docs/diamond-schell_corrected-april2020finalfile.pdf.

220 gave a speech: Simon Denyer and Congcong Zhang, “A Chinese Student Praised the ‘Fresh Air of Free Speech’ at a U.S. College. Then Came the Backlash,” Washington Post, May 23, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/23/a-chinese-student-praised-the-fresh-air-of-free-speech-at-a-u-s-college-then-came-the-backlash/.

221 it uncovered: “U.S. Department of Education Launches Investigation into Foreign Gifts Reporting at Ivy League Universities,” press release, US Department of Education, February 12, 2020, https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/test-0.

221 A 2019 report: Rob Portman and Tom Carper, China’s Impact on the U.S. Education System, staff report (Washington, DC: US Senate, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 2019).

221 wrote to: Josh Rogin, “Congress Wants DeVos to Investigate Chinese Research Partnerships on American Campuses,” Washington Post, June 20, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/06/20/congress-wants-devos-to-investigate-chinese-research-partnerships-on-american-campuses/.

222 warned in 2015: FBI, “FBI Counterintelligence Note: Chinese Talent Programs,” Public Intelligence, September 2015, https://publicintelligence.net/fbi-chinese-talent-programs/.