The Trump administration cut funding to that program in January, reflecting China's ability to support its own people and Chinese President Xi Jinping's strategic hostility toward the U.S.-led liberal international order. But this isn't just about grand strategy. As I've noted, the Peace Corps's China mission offers China's military and civilian intelligence apparatus a recruiting pool with which to target young, impressionable, intelligent, and public service-orientated American minds for recruitment. Their hope is that these people will then return home to take up service at the CIA, State Department, or some other government agency.
More problematic: the Peace Corps's home in China, Sichuan University, is a feeder school for the Chinese security services.
Now, don't get me wrong. The Peace Corps is a great organization that does much to help those in need and introduces people to more troubled areas of the world. Foreign aid also supports humanitarian interests and positive political development. But China and Sichuan University are not the realms in which to conduct Peace Corps operations. We've been slow to wake up to this truth.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...emand-funding-for-peace-corps-china-operation
More problematic: the Peace Corps's home in China, Sichuan University, is a feeder school for the Chinese security services.
Now, don't get me wrong. The Peace Corps is a great organization that does much to help those in need and introduces people to more troubled areas of the world. Foreign aid also supports humanitarian interests and positive political development. But China and Sichuan University are not the realms in which to conduct Peace Corps operations. We've been slow to wake up to this truth.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...emand-funding-for-peace-corps-china-operation