Professor at top Chinese university suspended for criticizing Xi Jinping

[Hamartia Antidote]

So no point , just "China bad USA good" and projecting of your usual hypocrisy and dishonesty

No, every country has their problems.

 

[Globenim]

No, every country has their problems.

Well that certainly justifies onesided and unobjective, hypocrite slander and fakenews campaigns by massmurderers and terrorists and your fake tears over matters you obviously don't really give a shit about even if they where real other than being an excuse to demonize and cry about the "enemy" and shutting down any talk about the people behind the propaganda.

Thanks for these wise words.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Thanks for these wise words.

You’re Welcome!! Someday you might actually have some!

 

[Globenim]

You’re Welcome!! Someday you might actually have some!

A pleasure. Whatever selfdelusional trip makes you sleep comfortable at night.

 

[nahtanbob]

Professor at top Chinese university suspended for criticizing Xi Jinping

Beijing (CNN)A law professor at a prestigious Chinese university in Beijing has been suspended and put under investigation for writing a rare essay critical of President Xi Jinping.

Professor Xu Zhangrun of Tsinghua University was told last weekend he was being removed from all teaching positions until the investigation into him was complete, his colleague and friend Guo Yuhua told CNN Wednesday.

Guo, a sociology professor at the same university, said Xu's work as a teacher, researcher and tutor had been suspended. She said the details of Xu's suspension were still unclear but it had been in a major part due to an essay he published in July 2018.

The lengthy article, titled "Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes," challenged the direction of China under Xi and called for the reintroduction of presidential term limits, which were controversially removed by the government in early 2018.

"Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, we had a 'supreme leader' with no checks on his power; how could people not have all kinds of strange imaginings and new fears?" Xu asked in his essay.

The investigation into Xu is just the latest action taken by the Chinese government to repress dissenting voices or opinions that run contrary to the ruling Communist Party's policies.
It also shows no voices challenging Xi will be tolerated as he continues to consolidate his position as China's most powerful ruler since Chairman Mao Zedong.

Speaking to the New York Times by text earlier in the week, Xu said he didn't know what would happen to him next.

"I've been mentally preparing for this for a long time. At the worst, I could end up in prison," he told the newspaper.

Fellow teacher Guo said it wasn't clear why authorities had waited so long to take action after the essay was published. She said if one person was banned from speaking, it was a problem for everyone.

"As for myself, I speak not because I'm brave, it's because I'm frightened. And I'm worried this may happen to anyone else," she said.

Freedom of speech?

The move is especially shocking given the prestigious reputation of Tsinghua University, which is over 100 years old and has been consistently rated as one of the world's best schools.

The most recent Times Higher Education World University Rankings placed Tsinghua as the top institution in Asia and 22nd overall.

The report attributed Tsinghua's high global ranking to "improvements to its teaching environment, in particular increases in institutional income and the share of PhD degrees awarded."

Beijing's equally famous Peking University, ranked 31 on the same Times report, has also been subject to a crackdown in the past few months, targeting the school's Marxist student leaders who had been working to promote workers' rights across China.

A number of Peking University student activists have been taken into custody by authorities since August, some of whom haven't been seen since.

Presciently, Xu criticized the repression and intolerance for academics under Xi's increasingly oppressive regime in his essay, saying it would hamper free discussion among Chinese intellectuals.

"In an atmosphere such as this, how can there be any freedom of speech? Without intellectual freedom and the independent spirit, what hope is there for people to explore the unknown, for the advancement of scholarship or for intellectual creativity," he said.
Tsinghua University did not respond to CNN's requests for comment.

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/27/asia/china-xu-zhangrun-tsinghua-university-intl/index.html

In Communist China you can't make fun of the president or criticize him and government if you dare to do that you'll suffer smh.

@Two @Kiss_of_the_Dragon @TaiShang @Raphael @beijingwalker @ZeEa5KPul

it is kind of improvement over what they could do to him

 

[chanrasjid]

Xu Zhangrun:
"The lengthy article, titled "Imminent Fears, Immediate Hopes," challenged the direction of China under Xi and called for the reintroduction of presidential term limits, which were controversially removed by the government in early 2018.
...
Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, we had a 'supreme leader' with no checks on his power; how could people not have all kinds of strange imaginings and new fears?
...
In an atmosphere such as this, how can there be any freedom of speech? Without intellectual freedom and the independent spirit, what hope is there for people to explore the unknown, for the advancement of scholarship or for intellectual creativity,
" Xu asked in his essay.

Academics such as Xu Zhangrun talks too easily; theirs is what may be termed theoretical pedagogy - words devoid of relation with real world conditions. It is habitual to utter words like: democracy, socialism...freedom, freedom of speech...justice, equality and what not - even parrots could do that. Such words do not change nor improve the world.

Look at the real world. I am familiar with the real world of physics. Ask why such nonsense as Einstein's relativity theories could be accepted in the world's top universities. Why billions of dollars spent on CERN type silly experiments. Why the top Chinese physicists are calling for their government to build a particle accelerator bigger than the LHC to investigate useless quarks, higg's bosons, etc. Just because such academics are from the top rated universities do not make them wise - they may even be the greatest of fools fooling themselves without themselves suspecting of being fooled!

There are hard real forces controlling the world and they do not follow theoretical pedagogy as what Xu Zhangrun imagines while sitting at his desk contemplating the affairs of men.

Chan Rasjid Kah Chew,
Singapore,
Collection of 15 short unpublished papers of mine (pdf files):
"Nuclear Energy Not From Einstein's E=mc²" and others.
http://www.emc2fails.com