China Democratic Federation’s Statement on Student Information Officers

 

　　According to reports, recently, the Chinese Communist Party authorities have established a student informant system in China’s higher education institutions and vocational education colleges. This means they have designated a group of students as so-called informants who are responsible for monitoring the classes taught by professors and teachers. They will report lecture content that does not conform to the current main theme to the relevant non-teaching departments. Those reported will be interviewed and warned at the least, and suspended from class, dismissed, and other various punishments and persecutions at worst. Many lecturers, including some famous experts, have become victims.

　　The CCP’s move is a serious violation of freedom of life, freedom of speech and academic freedom, and a serious setback in the field of freedom, democracy, legal system and human rights. It has been strongly dissatisfied by the vast number of intellectuals and upright teachers, students and employees in academia and education.

　　 The so-called student informants, as a CIA report put it in November 2010, are actually student informants or whistleblowers in schools. They not only secretly report teachers (including foreign teachers) who spread reactionary remarks in class, but also secretly report students with wrong ideas. These people consciously or under the temptation of money act as thugs for the CCP’s political persecution.

　　Over the years, as Chinese students have poured into Western institutions of higher learning in large numbers, we have reason to believe that various information agents are lurking among students, and those who have served as student informants in Chinese universities are more likely and easier to be recruited to become informants in overseas universities. Their arrival in the Western world will not only pose a threat to the academic freedom of international students and teachers, but may also further threaten the national security of Western societies.

　　In view of this, we, the China Democratic League, strongly recommend and try to persuade Western governments to strictly guard against various forms of informant systems and severely punish such scum of student informants. Therefore, we call on Western governments to make it clear that they will boycott information personnel from Chinese universities from visiting, studying abroad, and immigrating to their own countries. We require the immigration ministries and education departments of various countries to truthfully answer whether the applicant has worked as an information officer when accepting visa applications, especially student visa applications. Consider whether the applicant has served as an information agent or a whistleblower for political persecution as a basis for character review. Those who conceal the truth and obtain qualifications to study abroad will be deported to China immediately once found.

　　In addition, the China Democratic League calls on all-powerful netizens to dox those information workers online and make their information and achievements public to the public, nailing them to the pillar of shame. The China Democratic Federation also calls on overseas netizens to write letters, emails or phone calls to the leaders and elected officials in the region, urging them to introduce sanctions against information workers. For example, in the United States, you can write to President Trump, Speaker Pineapple West, the Secretary of State (in charge of embassies and consulates abroad), Senators and Representatives, and in Australia, you can write to the federal Prime Minister and members of Congress. The China Democratic League will draft a sample letter for everyone’s reference, and provide English and other language versions. The China Democratic League will consider directly organizing lobbying activities in Congresses such as the United States and Australia at the appropriate time.

　　We hope that through everyone’s joint efforts, we can effectively stop the spread of spies in Chinese campuses.

China Democratic Solidarity Alliance
May 8, 2019