How Beijing Recruited New York Chinatowns for Influence Campaign—A congresswoman’s links to a Communist Party initiative ran through a local ‘hometown association’
@jamestareddy@LuJazper
https://t.co/hayqNaUXm7
https://t.co/hayqNaUXm7
Tim Walz Is Fascinated by China—and Disturbed by Its Human-Rights Record. Democratic vice-presidential candidate has made dozens of visits to China as an educator, businessman and politician
@jamestareddy@LuJazper
https://t.co/D9qYgGmQbu
https://t.co/D9qYgGmQbu
(Another) of America’s Hottest Entertainment Apps Is Chinese-Owned—Chatbot in Talkie uses AI to allow users to converse with famous people or a virtual romantic partner
@raffaelehuang@LuJazper
https://t.co/1qUBaJH2lB
https://t.co/1qUBaJH2lB
Guo Wengui was convicted Tuesday in New York for bilking followers of over $1 billion via various schemes, some meant to support an anti-CCP movement. One of Beijing’s top enemies, he had self-exiled to the US and repeatedly lambasted CCP officials:
https://t.co/dlyuItNeOk
China Reopened to Foreign Students. Americans Are Staying Away—U.S. students numbered 11,000 prepandemic; now there may be fewer than 1,000
By our summer intern @LuJazper, with @jamestareddy
https://t.co/89mbDvhucT
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A level 3 State Department travel warning, along with a myriad of other factors, is dissuading many American students from studying in China. Before Covid, there were over 11,000 US students in China, but now that number is under 1,000:
https://t.co/gweUEwxIIl
U.S. Sends a Plane of Chinese Migrants to China—First large such removal operation since 2018 is carried out in coordination with Beijing
@LuJazper@shenlulushen
https://t.co/A9wNcYphln
https://t.co/A9wNcYphln
On Tuesday night, Jeremy Roach announced on Instagram that he has entered the transfer portal and declared for the NBA Draft. He is the seventh Blue Devil to say goodbye to @DukeMBB: https://t.co/GRGzr0OOyc
Duke announced that it would discontinue the Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship program, a merit scholarship for Black students, in light of legal changes related to race-based admissions:
https://t.co/ox8lUNhIFq
Current merit scholarship recipients say that the OUSF’s “post-matriculation” model, which requires admitted students to commit to Duke before learning if they’ve received a merit scholarship, will limit the incoming class’ socioeconomic diversity:
https://t.co/ywOd8tuSvw
1,984 high school seniors were admitted to the Class of 2028 out of a record 47,951 applicants. The overall acceptance rate of 5.1% is a record low:
https://t.co/On7emnAFCF
Sarah Avery, director of the Duke Health News Office, declined to provide additional comment, including on questions surrounding whether Raman’s claims were true and how Duke Health’s hiring and admissions processes have changed in recent years:
https://t.co/oLIUgjkdVx
Duke announced that Seinfeld will be the commencement speaker for the Class of 2024 in a video at the Duke-UNC men’s basketball game:
https://t.co/8Aadi4WjbF
Duke Students Supporting Israel, Passages and End Jew Hatred organized a display of 1,200 Israeli flags on Abele Quad, each representing someone who died in the Oct. 7 attacks. About 25 pro-Palestinian counterprotesters are gathering before the display.
Photos by Anabel Howery:
Some students said that the increase in police presence coincides with the recent implementation of the “Good Neighbor Program,” which streamlines communication between Duke and partnered neighborhoods:
https://t.co/q9eKxzDmKg