Chinese Influence on our Universities

[Black Orchid]

Australian universities hosting Chinese government-funded education centres have signed agreements explicitly stating they must comply with Beijing's decision-making authority over teaching at the facilities.

Eleven previously undisclosed contracts between the universities and Hanban, the Beijing-based headquarters that funds and oversees the global network of Confucius Institutes, shed light on the different approaches taken to safeguarding academic freedom and autonomy under the lucrative arrangements.

Agreements signed by the University of Queensland, Griffith University, La Trobe University and Charles Darwin University state in identical clauses that they "must accept the assessment of the [Confucius Institute] Headquarters on the teaching quality" at their centres.

The wording, which does not place any qualifications on Hanban's overriding authority, appears to hand Beijing more control than versions signed by other universities and will fan concerns about the institutes, which are a key plank of the Chinese Communist Party's global soft power effort.

The institutes are joint ventures between the host university, a partner university in China, and Hanban, an agency under China's education ministry which supplies funding, staff and resources. Confucius Institutes provide teaching on Chinese culture and language and some hold public events on political, social and economic issues.

Universities worldwide have embraced the centres but critics are concerned about censorship of sensitive political issues and centres operating as platforms for propaganda and undue influence on campus and beyond.

A spokeswoman for UQ said the contract — first signed in 2009 and renewed in 2014 — had expired in April and the university was negotiating changes in a new version, with explicit commitments to university autonomy over all content, standards, admissions, examinations, staffing and academic freedom "in connection with the Confucius Institute and all courses and projects it offers".

"The draft specifies that the agreement does not limit UQ's autonomy in any way," the spokeswoman said.

UQ students occupied their Confucius Institute on Wednesday, protesting the Chinese government's conduct and questioning the university's ties to Beijing. In tense and sometimes violent scenes, protestors clashed with pro-China students.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal ... 52ab9.html

Unbelievable! They called it 'soft power' on the news.

[Texan]

Be wary of the Chinese. Their government will take anything you don’t protect. Australia is smaller, more isolated, and much closer to China than America.

China floods our universities with students and steal every bit of technology they can find. They limit our imports and take our manufacturing with their slave labor rates.

[Outlaw Yogi]

They're (Chinese) flooding into our country, taking up Ozzy citizenship and then turn up at Garden Island waving Chinese flags to greet Chinese war ships. Their citizenship needs revoking.

I recently had no work for 3 weeks and considered going back to a mob I worked for in the past ... it's been bought by Chinese and they have Tongans running it.

Their mass migration program is to overwhelm us by critical mass. I reckon we should hunt them with pig dogs.

The thief nation is becoming more belligerent everywhere they go in every thing they stick their sticky fingers in.
We need a war, real soon, to teach them a lesson.
They being commies can't innovate because Marxism isn't about improving the lot of the poor or oppressed, it's about power and control for power and control's sake itself. To achieve this requires keeping their people ignorant, and that's why they cannot innovate.
So the only way they can advance is to steal other's intellectual property.

Trump & Co should put missile on Taiwan. The pacific nations should confiscate their 7 fortified islets. The free world should arm the countries around China which China has invaded, and block their internet access.

China will get flogged. They're all bluff.

[brian ross]

Oh, dearie, dearie, me. Appears to me that you're subject to what Howard once referred to as the "politics of jealousy", Yogi. Doesn't really become the image you like to be portray as a rugged, rough, tough, Aussie. Sounds more like a whiny little PHONy supporter.

The Chinese have signed an agreement with some Universities. Is this really going to affect how the Universities teach Australians? No, not really. Why? 'cause very few Australians will do Chinese culture or language studies. Funny that, hey?