Game of Pawns

It was produced by Rocket Media Group,[1] in association with the Counter-Intelligence Unit of the FBI and released online in April 2014.

Daniel Golden, author of Spy Schools: How the CIA, FBI, and Foreign Intelligence Secretly Exploit America's Universities, described it as "partly propaganda".

"[6] Rauhala concluded that since the film had a "stereotypical view of China" it meant that "the people behind it, like Shriver, seem well-intentioned but unforgivably naive.

[7] The administration of East China Normal University, where Shriver studied abroad, criticized the inclusion of the institution in the film due to potential negative publicity; the film does not mention the institution Shriver matriculated from, Grand Valley State University.

[9] Peimin Ni (Chinese: 倪培民; pinyin: Ní Péimín) and Geling Shang (商戈令; Shāng Gēlìng), professors at Grand Valley State involved in the university's China study abroad program, disliked how the film showed Shriver as being still a student when he was first contacted by the MSS.

Short film Game of Pawns
In Game of Pawns Shriver is portrayed by actor Joshua Murray, depicted as being in front of the main entrance to the East China Normal University in Shanghai ; ECNU's administration complained about the use of the university in the film.