Commentary An Australian Parliamentary committee on security and intelligence has concluded that the Chinese communist regime targeted Australian universities as part of a huge two-pronged exercise to firstly transfer Western knowledge and technology into China and secondly to deploy spies into the West. Australian universities allowed themselves to be infiltrated and used, but this is not just an Australian problem. Rather China has run this exercise across the Western world, especially in Anglo-sphere countries. Examining what happened in Australia serves as a case study of how naïve university managements were suckered into helping the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) grow itself into an aggressive global actor. It is worth starting by asking why Beijing targeted the universities. What does it want? It seems Beijing wanted four things that the universities could help them get. Most important was technology transfer. China has been playing catch-up with the West and Beijing realized it …