U of Canterbury professor @Anne_MarieBrady is being administratively harassed by @UCNZ for her work on #China's influence operations. The China Democracy Foundation is crowd-financing $20,000 NZD in legal support. Please donate and spread the word here: chinadem.org/take-action
.@james_t_quinn said of AMB, "foreigners with an interest in preserving their ties to the CCP suppress scholarship inconvenient to its strategic aims on their own, the regime’s aggressive, malignant foreign policy becomes that much harder to counteract." nationalreview.com/2020/10/intern…
We have an incredible board overseeing the founding of the organization and our first case to support Anne-Marie Brady: @DEANforDVW @cburton001 John Dotson at @ChinaBriefJT @nathanlawkc @CleoPaskal @benedictrogers, all of whom are volunteering in a personal capacity.
The CDF campaign to pay $20,000 NZD in legal expenses to defend @Anne_MarieBrady's important #China scholarship from her university's administrative harassment has reached over 10% already. This in just a few hours. Spread the word and donate here: chinadem.org/take-action
The people who signed the open letter in support of Professor Anne-Marie Brady are almost all China experts. They are Professor Brady's peers, and the only ones with the competency to judge her work.
The UC Deputy Vice-Chancellor Ian Wright, who commented negatively in the media about Professor Brady, is an underwater volcano expert-turned generalist and has absolutely no expertise in Chinese politics. scholar.google.co.nz/citations?user…
Yet Professor Brady, who is an expert, is not allowed to respond to his public charges per a legal gag by the university.
In effect Ian Wright is a hatchet man smearing Professor Brady's good name while apparently looking for an excuse to fire her for a paper that points out an inconvenient truth: New Zealand's government and universities are in bed with China's military and could very well be ...
... violating domestic and international law. There is tremendous public support for Professor Brady because people are thirsty for the truth about China, a truth that only the most courageous individuals, like Professor Brady, dare speak.
The campaign to fund Anne-Marie's estimated $20,000 NZD legal expenses has reached almost 1/3 of the requirement. Please donate here: chinadem.org/take-action
Rather than harassing Anne-Marie with trumped-up charges, underwater volcano expert Ian Wright @UCNZ should learn something by taking Anne-Marie's Chinese Politics 101 course. Then after language study, a Ph.D. and writing several books on it he MIGHT be qualified to judge.
@UCNZ Anne-Marie's paper on #China's influence in #NewZealand, which is being treated aggressively by her own @UCNZ administration, is an excellent piece of scholarship (38 pages and 347 footnotes). Some choice photos from the article:
The Vice Chancellor of @UCNZ, Cheryl de la Rey, who appointed the volcano expert to judge Professor Brady's work on Chinese politics, has caused controversy in her past posts too. She is paid huge salaries ($594k currently) ... pressreader.com/new-zealand/th…
... but tried to force poor South African students to pay fee increases of 6% in 2016. news24.com/news24/southaf…
In August two authors with whom Brady was working were bringing a petition to the NZ parliament and were in a suspicious car crash. One died.
.@UCNZ's current gagging of Brady and the fatal car crash against her petition coauthors two months ago are covered by Sky News in Australia. Brady's house has also been burglarized and her car tampered with - both suspicious occurrences.
Photos of the fatal car crash two months ago in which a Brady coauthor died.
About the crash of Freeman Yu, Xi Weiguo, and Wang Lecheng Indo, in which the latter two died and Freeman survived with terrible injuries, Anne-Marie told me, "The three men were all part of a civil society group who have given me a lot of support. They bravely signed the ..."
"... open letter of 2018 demanding NZ government protect us against the harassment activities. Freeman has been a sounding board and big supporter of me. He also spoke at NZ Parliament twice on the issue of CCP political interference. The three men were travelling down from ..."
"... Auckland to Wellington to hand deliver a petition pleading with NZ government to take action against CCP interference. They and others had permitted protest on that topic at Parliament arranged for the day before my oral testimony, then were going to come and hear me..."
"... speak. They are incredibly brave people, who speak for the silent majority of our 247,000 strong NZ Chinese population...."
"... The accident occurred two days before my oral testimony to the Justice Select Committee inquiry into political interferences in local government," where Anne-Marie released the PLA/NZ universities paper that is the subject of the current investigation.
"A copy of the petition the men wr[o]te was found in the car wreck with a heart shaped blood stain on the left corner of the page." - Anne-Marie Brady
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