Security News > 2020 > December > Pompeo Unloads on US Universities for China Ties

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday accused U.S. universities of caving to Chinese pressure to blunt or bar criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.

Pompeo took aim at universities across the U.S., claiming they refused to address the Trump administration's concerns about China's attempts to influence students and academics.

Pompeo defended the Trump administration's tough stance on China in remarks at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Pompeo has been a champion of the administration's hardline stance on Chinese policies in Taiwan, Tibet, Hong Kong, the western region of Xinjiang and the South China Sea, and he has made similar pronouncements before.

Pompeo also criticized Sarah Castro, the University of Washington's director of federal relations, for allegedly refusing to help Vera Zhou, a student of Chinese origin who had been detained in China in 2017, so as not to jeopardize a "Multimillion-dollar deal" between the university and Beijing.

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