These are mainland students who've never travelled overseas and are attending Masters programmes in Social Sciences (Global Communications,) in Hong Kong for one year.
The point he makes is that, 15 years ago, many of the students were at least a little more open to considering ideas, at least in class-time.
As time went on, he describes each cohort as being increasingly different and always skewing further towards, as he puts it:
"Even as recently as a few years ago, as more and more students explained their presence in the program as “preparation for giving the world the correct opinion of China,” they were at least willing to put their own perspectives at arm’s length for the duration of the class, as an intellectual exercise if nothing else. Which was, to be honest, all I was asking. I enjoyed having discussions with the students because they saw things differently than I did, but we could talk about those differences and how they manifested in our communication with people like, and more importantly unlike, ourselves. That’s the core of understanding global communication."
And, to answer your questions, as of today, we can be assured that all students are BOTH selected by the party AND sent for training in how to be more effective in the manipulation of western social media. When they graduate, it'll be straight back to the mainland and set to work.
Not the kind of people that are allowed to go/sent to the UK. An entirely different use of human resources.
(Edit: I didn't fucking edit at all! There was a glitch in the Urban-Matrix and it self posted my first six words, with the message : Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again. So I edited to continue ... Hmmph!)
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