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Is exposure to totalitarian influence via the #coproratisation of academia inevitable? A still somewhat on-going story that kept Czech media busy earlier this month (yet seemingly underreported in English) suggests that's not necessarily the case. An independence-day thread. 0/ 
\1 Home Credit, a subsidiary of the Czech-owned (but NL-registered) conglomerate PPF with major activities in China, had driven the Czech turn towards the PRC (jamestown.org/program/united… q.v.). On 30 Sep, it signed an agreement to become the ‘main partner’ of Charles Uni in Prague.
\2 Earlier in Sep, HC had called coverage by the uni-linked @sinopsiscz project of Chinese criticism of the company sinopsis.cz/cesky-kral-lic… ‘fake news’. The uni partnership stipulated both sides would avoid damaging each other's ‘good name’. a2larm.cz/2019/10/home-c…
