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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
by 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 agoWhat are you on about? The CCP has nothing to do with this.
- fakedang 5y agoThe 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 agoExcept 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 agoThe 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 agoThat's what the professor thought would happen, based on historical precedent. She used that precedent as a basis to proactively act against the candidate.