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The story goes: dude studies in china. Is in Switzerland bc of corona. Starts posting anti CCP on Twitter. Posts racist picture, some chinese PhD student in Can

The story goes: dude studies in china. Is in Switzerland bc of corona. Starts posting anti CCP on Twitter. Posts racist picture, some chinese PhD student in Canada sees it. Emails his supervisor. Supervisor sees it and decides that she doesn't want to work with someone who posts racist pictures (for the wrong reason not bc of the picture but because she fears she will get excluded if she publishes with him). This is all very plausible imo if one could actually see the picture which conveniently isn't included. This is not saying anything about the CCPs control over research which is a very serious topic. As long as I don't see the relevant picture. It's a researcher not wanting to publish with a someone who posts racist stuff.

sharken 5y ago
It is very convenient to only mention the racist picture and not also mention the accusation of the Chinese Coronavirus cover-up. The latter is just as bad for the CCP and would also lead to the events we have seen. But it's obvious that when you are doing Chinese studies paid by a Chinese university, then you're not free from repercussions when you tweet from a European country. So yes, China is influencing European universities and the west appears to accept this.
- curiousgal 5y ago
  What are you on about? The CCP has nothing to do with this.
  - fakedang 5y ago
    The CCP can block the supervisor's future Chinese visa prospects if she were somehow linked to the PhD candidate. Hence she disowned him and utilized the university machinery to achieve it. That's literally the premise of the article.
    - curiousgal 5y ago
      Except that's what the professor thought would happen, not what actually did. If we're to act on hypothetical then where would we draw the line? The US asks visa applicants for all of their social media accounts, seems pretty standard to me.
      - stale2002 5y ago
        The benefit of being a government that oppressing people who criticize it, is that they don't actually have to punish every single dissident. All you have to do, is make the threat known, and punish enough people, that everyone else falls in line. In this case, the behavior was directly caused by someone being justifiable afraid of something that could happen to them. This is known as a "chilling effect". So, yes, the CCP absolutely has something to do with the culture of fear that they created, that causes people to take these actions.
      - fakedang 5y ago
        That's what the professor thought would happen, based on historical precedent. She used that precedent as a basis to proactively act against the candidate.

sharken 5y ago

It is very convenient to only mention the racist picture and not also mention the accusation of the Chinese Coronavirus cover-up. The latter is just as bad for the CCP and would also lead to the events we have seen. But it's obvious that when you are doing Chinese studies paid by a Chinese university, then you're not free from repercussions when you tweet from a European country. So yes, China is influencing European universities and the west appears to accept this.

curiousgal 5y ago
What are you on about? The CCP has nothing to do with this.
- fakedang 5y ago
  The CCP can block the supervisor's future Chinese visa prospects if she were somehow linked to the PhD candidate. Hence she disowned him and utilized the university machinery to achieve it. That's literally the premise of the article.
  - curiousgal 5y ago
    Except that's what the professor thought would happen, not what actually did. If we're to act on hypothetical then where would we draw the line? The US asks visa applicants for all of their social media accounts, seems pretty standard to me.
    - stale2002 5y ago
      The benefit of being a government that oppressing people who criticize it, is that they don't actually have to punish every single dissident. All you have to do, is make the threat known, and punish enough people, that everyone else falls in line. In this case, the behavior was directly caused by someone being justifiable afraid of something that could happen to them. This is known as a "chilling effect". So, yes, the CCP absolutely has something to do with the culture of fear that they created, that causes people to take these actions.
    - fakedang 5y ago
      That's what the professor thought would happen, based on historical precedent. She used that precedent as a basis to proactively act against the candidate.