People wonder why I am so critical of universities, professors, and similar Galaxy Brains when it comes to China and there are a couple of reasons. Let me explain. First, these people are the height of hypocrisy. The same people and institutions who will criticize 1/n
Everyone and everything absolutely will not do the same on China. Saudi Arabia? Israel? The Military? The GOP? All awful. The PLA and the CCP? Shrug what are you going to do, let's work with those guys. Second, they demand of others what they refuse to demand of themselves. 2/n
Look at how much they criticize companies, countries, politicians, and political parties for working with China. Then look at the universities that turn over management of their campus in China to a CCP selected leader and member. Then look at the CCP princeling sitting 3/n
In their class paid for with tuition money from corrupt dealings. Look at how they criticize banks and investors but refuse to follow US law on disclosing foreign donations or KYC regs on who they are admitting to their own universities. If you want to be a leader, you lead 4/n
By example first and foremost. Third, they are excellent at complaining but have offered absolutely no remotely plausible solution to deal with their problems other than the university retread of the VW talking point: engagement and change through trade. Seriously, the same 5/n
people who are saying let's string bankers up with their fingernails are saying "it was honest mistake to omit millions of dollars in funding from the CCP." This really isn't a problem. Renaming the "China Initiative" is really what's needed. Rename the China initiative as 6/n
as long as it catches the mice for all I care. The reality is these people still do not grasp the most basic facts about how the game and methods have changed. They don't understand how their China campuses are run by the CCP. How classes in the US have China monitors. 7/n
They don't get how you can't have business as usual. They don't get that the China center at your elite university is literally funded by the CCP ending your ability to say what you want. I believe in the value of the university and professors pushing the envelope. 8/n
What I do not believe in is universities staying silent because they know their finances will get wrecked by China if they take a stand on a sensitive issue. I do not believe in turning over your foreign campus to a hand picked CCP cadre. I do not believe in taking CCP money 9/n
to fund your China center. I do not believe in pretending you can bring change through trade and engagement like VW as your justification to hopefuly get tenure on that paper. You don't have to like the reality where we find ourselves. That's completely fair. The reality is 10/n
Just screaming racism non-stop divorces you from the obvious reality of how the world has changed. Put forth reasonable ideas about how to unpack these difficult issues that China is clearly using to attack the US and Americans of all ethnicities. Doing nothing is not a solution.
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