{"id":3921,"date":"2025-12-07T14:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/?p=3921"},"modified":"2025-12-07T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T14:19:21","slug":"hostile-powers-sending-spies-to-wests-universities-says-former-security-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Hostile powers sending spies to west\u2019s universities, says former security chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"92\" data-end=\"148\"><strong data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"148\">1. News related to events and topics (\u224860 words)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"149\" data-end=\"610\">Former CSIS director David Vigneault warned that hostile spy agencies, especially China, are increasingly targeting Western universities, research institutions and private companies. He said China uses cyber-attacks, infiltrated agents and recruitment of university staff to steal sensitive technologies for military use. Speaking after leaving CSIS, Vigneault stressed that espionage now focuses less on governments and more on innovation and research sectors.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"612\" data-end=\"615\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"667\"><strong data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"667\">2. Causes of events and topics (\u224860 words)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"668\" data-end=\"1159\">China\u2019s long-term military modernisation strategy, shaped by its reaction to the 2003 Iraq invasion, drives its efforts to steal Western technology. Its intelligence operations exploit academic openness, staff vulnerabilities and the absence of election-cycle constraints. Broader geopolitical tensions, dependence on foreign energy, and global competition for technological dominance further contribute to espionage growth targeting universities, research programmes and private innovation.<\/p>\n<hr data-start=\"1161\" data-end=\"1164\" \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1233\"><strong data-start=\"1170\" data-end=\"1233\">3. Lessons to be learned from events and topics (\u224860 words)<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1721\">The situation highlights the need for stronger national security assessments in sensitive research, enhanced cyber-security and awareness within universities. Collaboration across society is essential to counter espionage without fostering racial profiling. Countries must balance academic freedom with security, develop sovereign technological and data capabilities, and ensure resilient systems that protect innovation while reducing reliance on potentially adversarial foreign powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. News related to events and topics (\u224860 words) Former CSIS director David Vigneault warned that hostile spy agencies, especially China, are increasingly targeting Western universities, research institutions and private companies. He said China uses cyber-attacks, infiltrated agents and recruitment of university staff to steal sensitive technologies for military use. Speaking after leaving CSIS, Vigneault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banner","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3923,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions\/3923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scientifictelevision.com\/america\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}