There are a couple of specific issues I find so appalling about academia and the university on everything with China. First, they are the polite plausible deniability apologists for the CCP. Mind you they are not Global Times apologists they are more pernicious because 1/n
https://twitter.com/UyghurProject/status/1464254372280418313
It does not sound like rank apologism. They will say things like"we are concerned about..." or "human rights issues continue to..." but they continue to treat CCP money like any other dollar and do nothing to actually challenge the problem or put anything at risk. 2/n
Consequently out of that same mouth they will call for engagement and need to work together and better understand. This is a more dangerous form of apologia because while it may nod at the problem it urges speeding up on the road to hell. There is a second season 3/n
Second, they are rank hypocrites. Ask them about politicians, political parties, or banks and they will demand transparency and clean money (as well they should). Ask them or universities to do the same and the stuttering begins. We have clear cut cases of major influential 4/n
University accepting and knowing they have accepted laundered straw company corrupt proceed donations. In others, cooperating with PLA front companies. The hypocrites demand of others what they refuse to do. There is one final reason. 5/n
Third, they refuse to consider the absolute failure of their advice for the past thirty years. All of their advice has been tried. Engagement, everything else came from and was pushed by universities. Yet we face a China not illiberal and intolerant than anything since Mao 6/n
What is the University solution? Keep doing the same thing. There has to be a point where universities and professors stand up and change their behavior rather than just throwing another round table with the same boring people that have hardly been to China and repeat 7/n
The same tired drivel trust bright is to where we are now. Everyone can look around and realize how it of touch the University and professors are with reality. Moral bastions you are not
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