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Jakub Janda

4 Nov, 8 tweets, 3 min read

@Aktualnecz

(THREAD) How Chinese political-intelligence gathering institute based in Hungary hired a Czech anti-Semite and entered Czech Academy of Sciences:

SIT DOWN FOR THIS @Aktualnecz STORY:

Ladislav Zemánek is a Czech neo-Nazi. He was a vice-chairman of a far-right extremist party.

Zemánek traveled to a Russia-organised propaganda trip to Donbas - later got sanctioned by Ukraine.

In 2016,Czech court found him guilty of antisemitic crimes, spreading hate against Jews.Attended team-building meetings of Central European neo-Nazis, like Slovak Marian Kotleba:

Ladislav Zemánek is contractor (his LinkedIn says “analyst”) working for Budapest-based China-CEE Institute. China-CEE Institute is a Chinese-government funded institution paying thousands of EUR to CEE academics for delivering updates on political developments in their countries

Ladislav Zemánek is covering the Czech context for them, multiple times a month for several years.

Within security establishments, China-CEE Institute is known for Chinese political intelligence gathering - paying CEE academics & cultivating them as sources of information.

@JirousFilip

China-CEE Institute is Feng Zhongping, former VP of an institute working for Chinese intelligence agency (MSS), explains Czech Sinologist @JirousFilip for @Aktualnecz.

No wonder China-CEE Institute sits in Hungary as its PM Viktor Orban is the best ally of China for our region.

Director of Center of Global Studies of Czech Academy of Sciences, Professor Marek Hrubec is an active member of China-CEE Institute international academic committee.

Zemánek works for Hrubec at the Czech Academy of Sciences, getting access into Czech academic establishment.

They both organise academic conferences on Russia and China. Marek Hrubec also wrote for China-funded Czech outlet "Literární listy", he also participated the Charles University courses secretly funded by the Chinese Embassy in Prague, which caused a major scandal there.

@lukasvalasek

President of Czech Academy of Sciences said she wants to fire Marek Hrubec as she learnt about this.

Read the full story by @lukasvalasek in Czech language here:
zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/v-akade…

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