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Hostile powers sending spies to west’s universities, says former security chief
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2025
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The only thing in this article that even remotely contradicts my summary is
which yeah, I'm sure a nation-state like China is doing cyber-attacks on our institutions as all the big nation-states do, and no nation-states should be doing that (or just existing at all 🏴🏴🏴), but like...all your scientific artifacts should be available to the public regardless of nationality anyways, i.e. academics have no business keeping secrets. So unless they're going and making life Hell for researchers, I really don't give a fuck if China's national security apparatus is antagonizing USA's national security apparatus because I see any national security apparatus as enemies of humanity.
Otherwise, the article is just sinophobic fearmongering about Chinese people gaining knowledge at scale.
Nation states shouldn't exist? National security is the enemy of humanity?
Damn bro hook me up with your acid supplier, mine is obviously far weaker.
I gotchu covered bro
That's a lot of statements, are any of them correct?
Not once does it say anything about what students are doing.