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Mo Brooks, infamous Alabama senatorial candidate who thinks rocks falling into the oceans cause receding shore lines, has come after the Chinese Communists who intermingle with us provincial folk at state universities. It seems the Department of Defense has cut funding to colleges with Confucius Institutes, causing Alabama A&M to oust the ostensibly cultural entity from its campus. Troy University remains non-committal, but may well do the same.
Remember the U.S.-China International Institute at UNA? The collaboration from almost a decade ago was a total failure. As far as we know, there's nothing left of the quack college, an institution which would have produced no degrees recognized in this country.
Still, our local university has an office in China that (we hope) has no ties to the Communist Party. Nor can we imagine what information this office might contain or produce that the Chinese government might seek. That might not stop Mo from finding fault.
We're very interested in seeing just how far Rep. Brooks takes his anti-Chinese policies...
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This "Chinese blog" from seven years ago ranks in the top five of reader favorites:
A Fractured Florence Fairy Tale
Pretend for a moment that students from an Asian country come to UNA, Athens State, or UAH, not to work on a degree, but to gather information about Redstone Arsenal, or perhaps, the new Space Command. How? Via the '6 degrees of separation' method: everyone knows someone who knows someone. What are the odds that any of the 3 universities mentioned have students or staff that have family members working in The Arsenal, or in the future Space Command HQ? See where this could go?
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