New York Times – Beijing Hinders Free Speech in America

The conduct and thinking of these Chinese and Vietnamese communist students (many of them children of Communist Party members) is EXACTLY the same as that of regressive leftist SJWs like communist ANTIFA and intersectionalists, EXACTLY reminiscent to Red Guards (Hồng Vệ Binh) of their grandparents generation.
Why are we educating and training the next generation of leaders for a totalitarian belligerent hostile dictatorship is beyond me. Would Western universities accept hordes of foreign students who are children of fascist regime members??

“The Chinese government, or people sympathetic to it, encourage like-minded Chinese students and scholars in the West to report on Chinese students who participate in politically sensitive activities — like my salons, but also other public forums and protests against Beijing. Members of the China Students and Scholars Association, which has chapters at many American universities, maintain ties with the Chinese consulates and keep tabs on “unpatriotic” people and activities on campuses. Agents or sympathizers of the Chinese government show up at public events videotaping and snapping pictures of speakers, participants and organizers.

Chinese students who are seen with political dissidents like me or dare to publicly challenge Chinese government policies can be put on a blacklist. Their families in China can be threatened or punished.

When these students return to China, members of the public security bureau may “invite” them to “tea,” where they are interrogated and sometimes threatened. Their passport may not be renewed. One student told me that during one of his home visits to China he was pressured to spy on others in the United States.

And in one egregious example of intimidation, in March 2016, the police in China abducted the relatives of the Chinese journalist Chang Ping, who lives in exile in Germany, after he published an article in a German publication that was critical of President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on free speech.
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Not all Chinese students in the West condemn their government. Many, in fact, actively support Beijing, often by shaming their fellow students who criticize Beijing.

Nationalism is rampant in China and many students, who grew up subjected to the full force of the Chinese government’s “patriotic education program,” carry it abroad. They blame Western powers for causing a “century of humiliation” before the Communist takeover in 1949 and for instigating trouble and constraining China’s growth as a global power. These “patriotic” students and scholars team up with the Chinese consulates to sabotage protests critical of the Chinese government. Many resort to online harassment of Beijing’s critics.

In a typical example, Shuping Yang, a Chinese student at the University of Maryland in May praised the “fresh air of free speech” in the United States during her commencement address and then faced a barrage of threats online from Chinese citizens and the state media for “insulting the motherland.” The China Students and Scholars Association encouraged people to rebut Ms. Yang’s views. Under the pressure, Ms. Yang issued a public apology, asking for forgiveness and declaring that she did not intend to belittle her country.”

https://www.nytimes.com/…/opinion/beijing-free-speech-ameri…

Jubilee year

Hurry up Jordan Peterson. We need to to talk about the Jubilee year. We’ve heard enough about the Pareto distribution as a justification of Western civilization in its current deformed, earth destroying shape. When and how often should Western civilization introduce a Jubilee, a cancellation of debt, and a redistribution of wealth, a leveling of the economic playing field, viz, equity or opportunity?

 

Soviet Union Q&A

Mirosław Koziarski shared Slavorum‘s post.

Okay, I am using this meme as a pretext. Being rather young as I am, I was born just months before the fall of the Soviet Union, so I mostly know the aftermath from experience and stories from my entire family. JBP made me aware of how much ignorance and misconceptios there are in the first world.

So… how about we make a thread where you guys try asking questions about the Soviet Union, while those of us who had any contact with it try answering those?

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