Missouri State University trained more than 1,500 Chinese government and state-owned enterprise personnel through its MBA programs. Some graduates later held senior roles in China's defense industry. 🧵
NEW INVESTIGATION: Yale Scholars, Xinjiang, and China’s Influence Operations
A new Strategy Risks investigation examines how two longtime Yale University scholars participated in a Chinese government-linked forum in Xinjiang, and how Chinese state media amplified their subsequent remarks.
The forum featured prominent involvement from a senior Chinese Communist Party United Front official and included a tour with stops tied to the U.S.-sanctioned Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
Our findings raise important questions about how respected Western academics can lend credibility to Beijing’s narratives about a region marked by documented human rights abuses.
Read the full investigation: strategyrisks.com/press/repo…
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The Trump-Xi summit has concluded. What comes next for global businesses?
Today at 12:30 PM ET, SR CEO Isaac Stone Fish joins Bonnie Glaser and Nazak Nikakhtar to discuss what’s next for companies navigating U.S.-China strategic competition.
Link: bit.ly/4AJNYAs
Yet another important report from @StrategyRisks — this one about how @MissouriState reportedly used taxpayer $$ to credential CCP officials in state-owned enterprises, including those designated as national security threats (AVIC) and engaged in human rights violations (iFLYTEK)
Expect this report to start another round of conversations in DC about the nature of higher education cooperation with China…
Breaking: Since 2001, Missouri State University (MSU) — a public university funded by Missouri taxpayers — has operated a MBA and EMBA pipeline for thousands of Chinese executives, officials, and state-owned enterprise (SOE) personnel, including figures tied to China’s defense industry.
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Missouri State University trained more than 1,500 Chinese government and state-owned enterprise personnel through its MBA programs. Some graduates later held senior roles in China's defense industry. 🧵
The report also examines admissions practices, institutional relationships, and whether tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer support may have helped fund the program.
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Wilson, the official NFL partner and the maker of the football used in the Super Bowl, is a Chinese company.
In 1989, Wilson sold to the Finnish conglomerate Amer Sports. In 2018, Anta — the Chinese sporting giant whose owner has ties to Xi Jinping — purchased Amer.
Today, Strategy Risks is releasing Shared Labs, Shared Harm -- a report on how MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford, and 20+ other Western universities used U.S. and U.K. government funding to become embedded in China's AI surveillance apparatus.
This isn't about blocking all China research. It's about recognizing structural reality:
You're not in a neutral academic space when you partner with labs embedded in authoritarian surveillance infrastructure. You're enabling repression.
Western institutions lend credibility, knowledge, and resources to China's surveillance apparatus.
Without safeguards—human rights due diligence, disclosure requirements, limits on sanctioned partnerships—publicly funded research will continue supporting systems of repression.