CSSA

Chinese Students & Scholars Association (中国学生学者联合(谊)会) or "CSSA" is the world's largest organization for Chinese students and scholars who are overseas. Today, CSSA has a chapter in all universities outside China with a sizable contingent of Chinese students and 'scholars.'

Officially, CSSA exists to welcome students and scholars arriving from China, help them settle in, provide them with a supportive social network, and organize events to celebrate Chinese festivals.

Unofficially, CSSA is the tentacle of the Chinese Communist Party through which it reaches into foreign universities to:

• Protest and suppress events and programs that expose the human rights abuses, including the persecution of Christians, by the Chinese government.
• Promote and sponsor events and programs that paint the Chinese Communist Party in a positive light.
• Monitor Chinese students and scholars while they are abroad, and let them know that they are being monitored.
• Dissuade Chinese students and scholars from accepting invitations from on-campus Christian groups like China Outreach Ministries or hearing the Gospel.
• Gather intelligence on industrial research being conducted at foreign universities.

It should be noted that Chinese law requires all Chinese citizens to comply with Chinese Communist Party's intelligence gathering. Since they must comply if contacted by a Chinese intelligence officer, all Chinese citizens, including those on foreign soil, are or could become spies of the Chinese Communist Party.

It should also be noted that one-sixth of all Chinese students in USA are on scholarships sponsored by the Chinese Communist Party and must report to an intelligence handler, who has the authority to terminate the scholarships of uncooperative students.

Each CSSA chapter is financially supported by a Chinese embassy or consulate, which works behind the scenes to handpick CSSA's leaders and regularly meets with them.

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