CSSA

Chinese Students & Scholars Association (中国学生学者联合(谊)会) or "CSSA" is the world's largest organization for Chinese students and scholars who are overseas. Today, CSSA has a chapter in all universities outside China with a sizable contingent of Chinese students and "scholars."

Officially, CSSA exists to welcome students and scholars arriving from China, help them settle in, provide them with a supportive social network, and organize events to celebrate Chinese festivals.

Unofficially, CSSA is the tentacle of the Chinese Communist Party through which it reaches into foreign universities to:

• Protest and suppress events and programs that expose the human rights abuses, including the persecution of Christians, by the Chinese government.
• Promote and sponsor events and programs that paint the Chinese Communist Party in a positive light.
• Monitor Chinese students and scholars while they are abroad, and let them know that they are being monitored.
• Dissuade Chinese students and scholars from accepting invitations from on-campus Christian groups like China Outreach Ministries or hearing the Gospel.
• Gather intelligence on industrial research being conducted at foreign universities.

Each CSSA chapter is financially supported by a Chinese embassy or consulate, which works behind the scenes to handpick CSSA's leaders and regularly meets with them.

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