The Communist Chinese made a "secret" donation to Cambridge University through a phony front company.
- In true 1984 style the Communists delete internet news stories as if they never existed.
Have you heard about the £3.7 million donation to Britain's Cambridge University by China?
Well no one elese has either. . . . . at least inside China.
Communist Party censors have been working overtime to "clean" Chinese web-sites of all stories about the large mystery donation to the university. A source in the Chinese media, who cannot be named for his own protection, told The Daily Telegraph he awoke one morning last week to find the unseen censors had been hard at work.
"In just one night, all discussions and articles about this event on the big Chinese websites [that carried the story] have been 'cleaned'.", the source said.
Mystery Communist Donation . . . .
The secretive foundation, which has no website or official listing anywhere in Britain or China, has endowed a chair of Chinese Development studies at the university's prestigious Department of Politics and International studies.
The news that China's state-backed censorship apparatus had moved to erase the story in China, has renewed concerns among Cambridge academics.
"These further revelations make increasingly untenable Cambridge's claim that the Chong Hua foundation has no links to the Chinese government," said Tarak Barkawi, a senior lecturer in war studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies.
"They demonstrate also just what kind of regime Cambridge has chosen to associate itself with, one whose values are antithetical to freedom of thought and freedom of speech, the very basis of the Western academy.
A local source in China reported being directly ordered to remove a story about Chong Hua. "When I asked why, I was told it was 'orders from the top'." the source added.
Serious concerns about the donation from the unknown 'Chong Hua' foundation were raised last month by several Cambridge academics who feared that Beijing was using its vast resources to purchase soft-power influence at the university.
The news that China's state-backed censorship apparatus had moved to erase the story in China, has renewed concerns among Cambridge academics.
"These further revelations make increasingly untenable Cambridge's claim that the Chong Hua foundation has no links to the Chinese government," said Tarak Barkawi, a senior lecturer in war studies at the Department of Politics and International Studies.
"They demonstrate also just what kind of regime Cambridge has chosen to associate itself with, one whose values are antithetical to freedom of thought and freedom of speech, the very basis of the Western academy.
A local source in China reported being directly ordered to remove a story about Chong Hua. "When I asked why, I was told it was 'orders from the top'." the source added.
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