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Tensions Boil at Australian Universities as Chinese Communism Permeates
[Breitbart] Tensions are rising at some Australian universities amid concerns that the Chinese government is infiltrating teaching methods across the faculties, according to a report from news.com.au.The concerns have arisen after multiple incidents of Chinese students demanding changes to teaching methods, as well as demanding apologies from lecturers about the way they explore certain topics. The trend has led to concern across Australia of the growing threat of the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian ideology infiltrating universities and potentially influencing other students. Some students have even posted footage online of lecturers going against the Chinese Communist Party’s ideology. Last week, a student at the Chinese University of Newcastle uploaded footage of him arguing with a lecturer who referred to Hong Kong and Taiwan as independent countries. "You are making us feel uncomfortable," the student tells business professor Nimay Khaliani. "You have to consider all the students." "Exactly, all the students, not one set of students," replied Khaliani. The incident reportedly went viral across Chinese media, with Newcastle University having to contact China’s consulate-general to resolve the issue. Another incident at the University of Sydney reported in Chinese media involved IT professor Khimji Vaghjiani displaying a map with three regions currently disputed by China and India as part of India. "Over 18 months ago, I used an out-of-date map, downloaded from the internet," Vaghjiani later said in a statement. "I was unaware that the map was inaccurate and out-of-date. This was a genuine mistake and I regret any offense this may have caused." Recently, the publishing company Cambridge University Press ceded to pressure from Chinese authorities to remove an academic journal named China Quarterly, pulling 300 articles from their archives. However, they recently announced that the articles had been reinstated: View image on Twitter Posted by: Besoeker 2017-09-04 |
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