“We found widespread evidence of interference, in some cases with universities collaborating to effect repression … This crisis has been brewing for a decade or more.”
“It is a symptom of funding issues in the sector but also doubtlessly of the CCP’s concerted strategy to distort narratives and control the international understanding of China. The CCP pursues this strategy through lawfare, cyberattacks, espionage, funding and financial inducements, and repression. It amounts to an obvious campaign of psychological and political warfare.”
“If universities failed to self-regulate then the government must be called to step in.”
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Byron Wan
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Sheffield Hallam University has been saying repeatedly that it spoke to the UK government over concerns about pressure from China to drop critical research, including having “reported relevant matters”, but apparently it had refused to raise fears of foreign interference with x.com/byron_wan/stat…