The CCP Attempted to Recruit Me, Stanford University Student Testifies to Congress

When Elsa Johnson left her Minnesota home for Stanford University two years ago, the teenager figured she’d be approached by campus clubs or student social organizations, not the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But that’s just what happened, Johnson told the House Committee on Education and the Workforce Thursday during a hearing on espionage and national security threats at U.S. universities. Johnson, who graduated from a Chinese-language immersion school before college, majors in East Asian studies, with a focus on China. She is also the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Review, an independent right-leaning campus newspaper. Following Johnson’s spring semester work as a research assistant at the Hoover Institution, a man who identified himself as “Charles Chen” contacted her via social media, noting that he had mutual followers and friends from Stanford....