NOTE: Before answering the following questions, read the info under “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources” below.

1. List the who, what, where and when of the news report.

2. What is the Chinese government demanding the U.S. do about the arrested Chinese “scholars”?

3. a) What travel advisory did the U.S. State Department issue in September?
b) How seriously do you think Americans living in or traveling to China should take this warning?

4. Under “Background” below, read about the Chinese Communist Party’s “Military-Civil Fusion” strategy. Some Republicans in Congress are pushing for an outright ban on visas for Chinese graduate and post-graduate students who want to study STEM fields in the U.S. What do you think?