As students flooded back into Beijing's top universities in early September, a propaganda blitz around campuses signalled an ominous addition to their syllabus: a crash course on how to catch spies. At the government-run Tsinghua University videos were beamed onto faculty screens instructing teachers and students to become a "defence line" against foreign forces, while the Beijing University of Technology threw a national-security themed garden party, according to the nation's spy agency.Students at Beihang Universitywere even asked to play an interactive training game, called Who's The Spy? "In...
As students flooded back into Beijing's top universities in early September, a propaganda blitz around campuses signalled an ominous addition to their syllabus:...