Americans and American organizations must seriously reconsider the potential risks of participating in Xi’s all-expenses-paid exchange programs.
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Last November, during the U.S.-China summit in San Francisco, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping announced a plan to invite 50,000 young Americans to exchange programs to study in China over the next five years. But any Americans considering taking up Xi’s offer may want to think again after four instructors from a U.S. college were stabbed in broad daylight in China last week.
Thefourinstructors,includingthreeU.S.citizens,areaffiliatedwithCornellCollegeinIowa(notCornellUniversityinNewYork).TheyareteachingatBeihuaUniversityinJilin,anortheasterncityinChina,throughanexchangeprogramfundedbyBeihua.AccordingtoJilin’spolicereport,onthemorningofJune11,thefourinstructorswerewalkinginapopularpublicparkwhena55-year-oldlocalman,Cui,“collided”withoneoftheinstructors.CuistartedstabbingtheinstructorsandaChinesecitizenwhotriedtostophim.PoliceapprehendedCuiquickly.Allfivevictimswererushedtoalocalhospital.Fortu