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i want to straddle his university campus and tensions are rising and then i let a chance hey hey her heart she has got to go i. thought it was at that moment that i was attacked. by. the universe these billions of dollars a year from chinese student fees and research projects with china. but now feel is a growing that these lucrative arrangements maybe were seen as strategy is academic institutions even national security at risk strategy university use of nothing sleepwalking that been in a kind of it's astonishing there is no excuse anymore. one east investigates how

beijing is infiltrating a strangely is university. one day in november and executive assistant at the straggly national university in canberra read an email. it set off a cyber highest like not in this country has experienced before. as near as we can tell the 1st thing that our hackers did is launched a spear phishing attack one where you didn't have to actually make a mistake normally have to click on something that was not the case. so this was really the 18. they were able to do things that were impressive and very hard to stop.

colleague i am a student in the vice chancellor as student leadership program i am currently working on a project which went to require help as a mentor all. over 6 weeks the hackers same to have speed phishing e-mails impersonating a student and stuff to steal pos words for the university's databases. it was until 6 months after the infiltration of the i and you began that the university discovered a database containing nearly 2 decades worth of records of current and former students and stuff had been hacked. the database went back 1000 years and included several 100000 people and we do not know what data was taken of which

person over what top. so they removed data from essential the database that contains when you were a student here your records passport details probably bank account details. they haven't as shows this to be a highly organized well resourced sophisticated actor consistent with a state actor or you know a very well funded group sometimes associated with a state actor we understand that behind closed doors intelligence agencies cite the evidence points to the culprit being china that may well be the case but it's not always in the interests of government of course all the strength in people to point a finger at a knife and it may be. that you don't have the literal smoking gun that you require for that irrefutable evidence publicly to make such an assertion.

senior strategy and security officials aside i believe the chinese government was carrying out a high take espionage operation to collect information that could be used to compromise and blackmail the victim. trains thousands of people who end up in the national security community if and you has materials on these people that could be used to compromise them for example a history of of plagiarism or sexual harassment allegations then this is incredibly concerning and could undermine our national security i and you graduate and influential china analyst alex joseph was one of 200000 people who was told his personal data may have been stolen. just be believes the new has left itself wide open. and use one of the world's leading universities for collaboration with the chinese military one example and you is that and you trained

a scientist who was sent here by the chinese military as a ph d. student working on artificial intelligence and specifically trained swarms working together with and you scientists who are receiving defense funding for the exact same research when he went back to china he was quickly promoted and is now head of the the chinese militaries drones one program we found 30 collaboration's between an you and chinese defense university's papers on aerial robots and drones and research that could be used to help stealth fighters hide themselves while communicating with military bases all of the work that we do is in the public domain so it's not secret research it's not done for dollars it is there normally in some form that is much more generic now there are abilities for things to be dual use but we always again look at

whether or not we think things are potentially able to do harm. since 27 tane a straggly as security agencies have been warning universities about the risks of foreign interference. publicly they don't. just the education minister announced a university foreign interference tasca force. foreign interference is now at unprecedented levels in this country. sauber intrusions which have a could in the last 3 to 4 years which. should be a white cup called australia and it's a white cab call to a university sector waica called business sector code where government turners and

. the chinese government and its supporters deny that china poses a threat with nurses. and other intelligence units in australia making allegations direct or indirect you know against china we think these allegations are unfounded and it was substantial evidence or should i think there are some forces in the china forces that are playing chinese academic professor chain home was recently brought to a strategy as part of a p.r. campaign and was provided by the chinese embassy after it declined our request to interview the ambassador and most of. the united nations i think to date so far there has been no clear evidence you know you know you know evidence being produced but. to as i said incriminates china you know to be doing anything.

with chinese student numbers of record highs australia's most respected and prosperous universities are in the midst of a cultural and political transformation. with zeal for the rise of the staff sergeant but we also your work for both instead of the children. at the university of sydney one quarter of all students now come from china. aspiring politician jackie who became the 1st chinese citizen in a stray or elected president of a university student representative council i don't lose your telephone. today he's campaigning for the reelection of his group called panda has been andrew i can speak from entering without it for the yeah but many members are pro china of course and it does not necessarily mean. you know any kind of right and you know we

add well we love the well our we love both australia and china it's not there's no dichotomy here where like you have to either love one country are not right and the purpose of us existing is to bridge that gap between international and domestic shouldn't so day international zones can have to help to be betting both in the community here. 42 on world those who are going to all of you all want to be able to tell you because you are you know. an hour before polling closed the pandas were suspended from campaigning for breaching multiple roles including campaigning in mandarin and standing over students who were casting their votes. last august jackie who filmed a segment for a chinese state t.v. show called the china dream named after president xi jinping trademark political slogan. is essentially

chinese students from across the world from various different countries like canada romania america and obviously australia. to come together and share their love and feelings about china and their stories with chinese students and with. jackie who says chinese students are being unfairly vilified ranch media have been accusing. chinese international shouldn't of being of carrying out spy work you know strange and i think to accuse these students who are already facing a heavy amount of burden regardless whether it's financial social or psychological to accuse them of spy working australia i think is quite absurd and the purpose of international shouldn't isn't here to carry out any spy work for for for for the

government in china at least a vast majority of international students don't have any of this kind of intention at all. the university of queensland has been at the center of the storm over chinese political interference on campus. they want to nori in taishan day the university was the scene of an ugly confrontation between pro and anti beijing demonstrators. we decided to hold a protest on market day surrounding our universities closely for chinese state because we decided that would be the best way to get attention to the course. student activist through power flute latest city against vice chancellor peter horton over the university's close connections with the chinese government.

i lead a chant hey hey hurry peta has got to go and that was basically calling for peta white to resign over his links to the chinese communist party while these human rights abuses are being perpetrated and then i let it stand hey hey heard her she's in pain has got to go. it was at that moment that i was attacked. i heard noises like there was a national effort and there was shouting the slogans were shouting china's hong kong. betrayers of china. 7

was. was. they were ugly sayings on both sides. there were close to $90000.00 chinese students enrolled at the university of queensland their fees contribute a quarter of a $1000000000.00 a year. in the last 5 years you cued received $24000000.00 from agreements with chinese institutions and companies. it also hosts a branch of the confucius institute a language and culture program run by the chinese government called handbag which

gives you queue up to $400000.00 a year. university of queensland fast chancellor paid a whole year has forged strong links to china. 2013 he was appointed as an unpaid senior consultant to hand back and was later made a member of the council of confucius institute headquartered. professor who has also received hand bands outstanding individual of the year award. he stood down for man band. last year after being advised he'd need to declare it under a strangely as new foreign interference transparency scheme. there a conflict of interest between your commitment to academic independency q. with your membership of the council of the confucius institute headquarters i believe not you know a stroller like any other country. or foreign service. we always believe that in order to get the best out of open collaboration and

that you have to engage and influence and what i've been trying to do is to influence the way that the chinese see their relationship with us rather than being influenced by the chinese are you confident that the chinese government or chinese communist party has an attempted to influence you. very confident that i haven't been influenced i think it is concerning especially given what we know about the way the chinese government sees education in the chinese government's eyes education is a means of propaganda of brainwashing and controlling the thoughts of people so from history in university vice chancellor to be advising the chinese government on education. from an optics perspective looks terrible. last july at the university of queensland made china's consul general in britain an

adjunct professor the 5th such appointment of a chinese diplomat. who is nominated by the director of u. cuse confucius institute. the appointment of such people goes through a book well defined process. anybody can nominate. somebody for an affiliate position and it's not unusual we have $2500.00 such positions. after the uku protest the consul general put out a statement praising the probe aging protesters for what he described as spontaneous patriotic behavior and condemning what he called the words and deeds of separatist country. i think it's quite incredible that a man listed by the regular person can seemingly endorse student at endorse

violence against protesting and exercising their right to free speech and free assembly and continue to be a professor at the university of queens then months later made it very clear that we don't endorse any violent acts in a peaceful demonstration and through that you can conclude that i would disagree was somebody who wouldn't dos that type of behavior. there's been a lot of concerning activity at the university of queensland in gauges in particularly high levels of collaboration with the with chinese partners some of which has raised serious human rights concerns so one example is that a scientist you q professor shown on tar set up a company in china called koala that was commercializing his research and applying it towards monitoring people in the region of since you know. you cue

professor shane hangtown developed cutting edge surveillance technology that's now being used as part of a mass surveillance program in china as she providence. has played a. professor shane has received $2600000.00 in grants from the struggling research council. who. is no longer a professor at duke you he stopped being an employee in 2017. i understand that he is back in china. he was an outstanding contributor to development of related research. and that capability is now being deployed for australia's. benefit.

what he goes on to do. subsequent to having left you queue is something that we can't grittily control or make judgement about because we're not privy to the details of its activities in china. in january last year chinese media reported the announcement by high unidata of the . stablish meant to have a joint tart official intelligence lib oratory with the university of technology sydney. there's very little information about the deal available it's only available in chinese language media but we can see an image of a director at high in data with an academic eye e.t.s. any images of the agreement. the u.t.s. academic was associate damon director of the university center for artificial

intelligence professor luke comes here last month professor lu one of $3000000.00 fellowship from the australian research council for a project to enable lot official intelligence to learn autonomous late from dot up there and there is a. back to. what response of samantha hoffman is concerned by the u.t.s. higher data connection. i have to do is search a company like high end data and chinese on google and very quickly or come up with their relationships to the ministry of public security in particular in mystery of public security colleges because as soon as you have a company that's involved in the ministry of public security and one that advertises actually. very openly that it is involved in and that police state you have to ask why yes find that acceptable.

seized the reason. that it has confirmed a research project with higher data to develop technology for handwriting recognition. it seems as if data has built a relationship with scholars at the university but we also know that you to sydney seems to have signed other arraignments that you know what not technically illegal to raise major red flags we need to ask the social and political consequences of technology advancement in america option of technology just just very broadly we need to start understanding the implications and so if there is a. a affirm that's backed by a regime that doesn't purport to be a liberal western democracy and it's engaging in what could be. developments

that help suppress people then that's a dangerous thing. in 27 tane u.t.s. signed a 10000000 dollar deal with a state owned military company called china electronics technology corp to fund a new high tech research center one of its projects focused on public security video analysis the company c.t.c. had earlier developed a mass surveillance used to monitor we get synching. u.t.s. denies its research contributed to the app. but we can reveal its abandoning the project down to others would see t.c. because of concerns expressed by strongly as defense department. anyone seeking money needs to. quite clearly understand what obligations are associated with that money and they also need to understand in the case of researches what the

technology they were searching could be used or misused for. china's next major research venture in a strategy a is currently being developed at the university of new south wales. the torch innovation precinct is the chinese science ministries oversees high tech research zone and will host more than 60 companies including while away and c.t.c. . chinese companies have so far committed $47000000.00 to the project. i say the torch technology park which is part of beijing's technology transfer from the west to china as the plundering of some of this trail is most valuable. intellectual property university same. livius to the risks i think university of yourself well this is one of a handful of universities in

a stray year which is completely in denial about what's going on. the university of new south wales says it takes its security and compliance obligations very seriously and is came to work more closely with the government to ensure its operations are always in line with the national interests of. universities and now on the front line of a clash of political and academic cultures that's posing greater challenges to the industry than ever before. their entanglement with china's or thora tarion regime is calling astrologers academic integrity human rights commitment and national security and that's. where all dealing with what is an emerging threat

a threat which has rage levels of unprecedented proportions so we want to make sure it's very clear what the responsibilities of universities are when it comes to collaborating with any government foreign government because it's incredibly important that we get that collaboration right and that their collaboration is in the strays interests. some universities are starting to get the message many universities just have their is closed their unable to hear the kinds of warnings. there is no excuse anymore perhaps 3 or 4 years ago university vice chancellors could have said oh well we didn't know that is no longer excuse naivety is no longer an excuse. australia's precedented fire season has killed more than a 1000000000 animals. one o one aced investigates

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