Chinese Embassy Pays Students to Welcome Hu Jintao

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Epoch Times has discovered that the Chinese Embassy is paying large groups of Chinese students and members of community organizations with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party to welcome Hu Jintao to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Embassy uses these groups as part of a larger effort to influence Western society. Read the beginning of The Epoch Times article below; get the complete story at this link: www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/49555/

Chinese Embassy Pays Students to Welcome 'Chairman Hu'

Students and front groups used to keep protestors out of sight

By MATTHEW ROBERTSON

Epoch Times Staff

WASHINGTON—As Hu Jintao and his entourage go over the final steps for the General Secretary's tightly scripted visit on Tuesday, Chinese Student and Scholar Associations (CSSAs) and other front groups of the Chinese Communist Party in the DC area are being mobilized to give him a big welcome.

The welcoming groups are a crucial part of the publicity war, courtesy of the Chinese Embassy. Hundreds and possibly thousands of Chinese students will set up shop outside the Blair House and the White House. On site they will wave Chinese and American flags, hold up banners, chant patriotic slogans, and sing patriotic songs. If Hu Jintao's motorcade passes by, they will cheer.

They will work in shifts, be shuttled to and from the site, and be provided with meals and beverages. Some student participants will receive cash payments of up to $80 for the trouble.

The message is getting out to students mostly through emails and bulletin boards at universities in the greater DC area and beyond. In the messages the CSSAs offer to foot the bill, but the money doesn't come from the students.

Complete article here: www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/49555/

SOURCE The Epoch Times