CHINA-OVERSEAS STUDENTS

Almost 800,000 Chinese students studying in overseas universities are not yet under the Party’s control. Of them 350,000 mainland Chinese students are studying in American colleges — more than five times what it was just a decade ago. More than 90 percent receive no tuition assistance. The CCP CC's United Front Work Department (UFWD), charged with managing relations with critical groups outside of the Communist Party, has identified overseas students as one of 12 special targets for ideological guidance and promotion of Party policies. The organization has said focusing on these students is important for “consolidating and expanding the Party’s popular base.” A 2016 Ministry of Education document similarly called for a network linking “the motherland, embassies and consulates, overseas student groups, and the broad number of students abroad” in order to harness “patriotic energy” among overseas students. 





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