evidence of actual political influence being exerted by the chinese government through the confucius institute in new south wales public schools no evidence no problem i guess university staff will still have to follow the rules of this new directive to declare foreign funding but whether or not it's a real issue is another discussion especially as reports of racism against chinese students have become more and more widespread as of late and as canberra has been stifling scientific cooperation with china by making it more difficult for scientists to get visas coordinated influence from beijing hasn't even been proven to exist and yet the countermeasures against it are already having a very real effect it has the potential of restricting this. in the nature of research having direct government interference recruiters already as it is and it's very stern that's how these guidelines are going to operate in the workplace to. the various universities around the edges making comments over. well time to make all of these ticket concerns see what research we're going to start schools and what the end

time in the indictment in this case that this chinese official was working with one of the confucius institutes on a university in massachusetts which wasn't identified by name but most likely was mit or massachusetts institute of technology. >> host: interesting. military might. we've touched upon a number of areas, but let's go to military might. clearly the chinese are investing in their navy and also many countries in the region have been very concerned about what they've been witnessing in terms of the island of the south china sea islands disputes. but also about the investment, the significant investment in the military. where is it now and how would you describe it? >> i touched on this a little bit earlier that chinese military threat comes in two forms of the conventiona conventional/unconventional warfare and the nuclear. >> host: and you did mention the nuclear. >> guest: they've developed a new array of systems. i remember way back many years ago that the chinese through a spy case in california stole details on the system that is a huge radar that is the heart of the modern navy a

as you say goes well beyond the confucius institutes. he said the chinese abusing the thousand talents program. also the fbi has about a thousand cases constantly. coincidentally, invest getting technology transfer and that university should be smarter about defending themselves. be, whaton would efforts has the fbi taken to inform the higher education community about this threat. what is your response? >> i think you put your finger on an important issue. the role of academia in our country, especially given the amount of taxpayer-funded research, is a key component to this counterintelligence threat. in addition to investigations ,nd i cannot give you a number that involve universities and graduate students and researchers, it is us to get number. in addition to the investigations we are much more actively engaged with major --versities in current jane in encouraging them and informing them so they can take appropriate action voluntarily robustly to guard against the threat. the reaction we have gotten, varies, but i have been encourag

looking into that issue and have done a series of hearings on related items including on a confucius institute report. it indicates there are limitations that china places on the activities here including censorship as an example, not allowing the academic community here to discuss topics they believe are politically sensitive, such as the tiananmen square uprising. you said the chinese abusing the thousand talents program. the fbi has about a thousand cases constantly. coincidentally, investing in technology transfer and that university should be smarter about defending themselves. my question would be, what efforts has the fbi taken to inform the higher education community about this threat. what is your response? >> i think you put your finger on an important issue. the role of academia in our country, especially given the amount of taxpayer-funded research, is a key component to this counterintelligence threat. in addition to investigations and i cannot give you a number, out of the thousands that involve universities and graduate students and researchers, it is a significant number. in ad

believe they're politically sensitive such as the tiananmen square uprising, it goes beyond confucius institutes. you said china is abusing the thousand talents program and the fbi has about a thousand cases, coincidentally, investigating technology transfer and you said universities should be smarter about defending themselves. i guess my question would be -- what efforts have the fbi taken to inform the higher education community about this threat and what has your response been? >> so, i think you put your finger on an important issue. the role ofing a d academia is component to this counterintelligence threat. so in addition to investigations and i can't give you a number out of the thousand that involve universities and, in particular, graduate students and researchers, but certainly it's a significant number. but in addition to the investigation, we're much more actively engaged with major universities in encouraging them and informing them so that they can take appropriate action voluntarily, but robustly, to guard against a threat. as far as the reaction we've gotten, it varies. but i ha

it took him to the confucius institute, chinese opera performance at night where again he gave her marks and stayed on stage after some pictures and shook hands and took pictures with everybody there but he was the last one to leave. not only is he a billion scientist and great man but will be a great ambassador for arbor university in the future. freshman class is all in and accounted for between 900 freshman, 1000 transfer students, 1600 new graduate students. that is a record for us. we've been working hard to increase our graduate enrollments. we got 91 new students in our pharmacy program and our doctor of pharmacy program which was one student over our goal. they now have 231 students in that program and they will bring in the fourth cohort next year, right around 320, three and 30 students and will graduate the first class of doctor [inaudible] students in the spring 2021. a long time coming but definitely something to celebrate a little under 13000 graduate students and that's the number we want to keep. high school gpa of 95. it's a great group of students we have here and they

we took him to the confucius institute chinese opera performance that night and he gave remarks and stayed stage after some pictures and shook hands and took pictures with every there. i think he was the last one to leave. not only is he a brilliant scientist, his great man he's gonna be a great ambassador for binghamton university and future. freshman class is all in and accounted for, 2900 freshman a thousand transfer students, 1600 new graduate students. that's a record for us. we been working really hard to increase our graduate enrollment. we got 91 new students in our pharmacy program are doctor of pharmacy program which is one student over our goal they now have 231 students in that program. they will bring in the fourth cohort next year and bring them right around 320 to 330 students and graduates first class doctor pharmacy students in the spring of 2021. a long time coming for that but definitely something that is outstanding. a little more than 14,000 undergraduates which is a number we want to maintain release markets. average sat score 1370 nine high school gpa of 95. it's a g