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Speaker 0 notes that owned groups have been buying up schools across the United States, including Spring Education Group which owns 240 schools in 19 states, funded by a Chinese investment firm whose CEO has been described as an ardent Chinese nationalist. Xi Van Fleet, who was born in China and lived through the Cultural Revolution, joins the discussion.
Speaker 1 explains that the CCP has long viewed America as its arch enemy and has continually aimed to weaken and undermine the United States in order to replace it as the world’s superpower. Education is identified as a key battleground. Since the early 2000s, CCP efforts began with higher education through Confucius Institutes, then expanded to public schools via donation and exchange programs such as sister school programs, and are now moving into private schools by purchasing many of them.
She asserts that in 2015 the CCP bought the high school New York Military Academy, a school that President Donald Trump attended, arguing that the intent is not to make money but to take over American education and turn classrooms into the “little red classroom” and education into “American education with CCP characteristics.” The overarching goal, she claims, is generations of people who align with CCP messaging, referencing influencer Hassan Piker who allegedly visited China and told followers that China offered a solution for America, asserting that communism is the solution to problems created by capitalism in America. This, she says, is very dangerous.
Speaker 0 adds that the NY Military Academy purchase connects to efforts to influence elites by targeting private schools where wealthy families send their children, who then go on to hold high positions in society. She notes that there has been chatter about Chinese ownership of farmlands as well, but argues that the influence through these private schools is even more effective.