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Pro-Hamas protests at universities around the country exposed the hidden organizers who are buying the tents, printing the signs, and in many cases, paying professional protesters to incite and radicalize students. Various campus student groups and pro-Palestinian organizations receive funding from Saudi Arabia and Qatar, which also pay for their students to attend American schools. But there are other, even more troubling funders of student activism and campus unrest. Most prominent among them? The Chinese Communist Party. The most recent episode of The Drill Down explores the hidden hand of Beijing in the campus upheavals.