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To manage these risks our universities will need to reach out to alienated
students, fix the failures of integration and improve their products.
PHOTO: YAN XIA
Our Universities Are a Frontline in
China’s Ideological Wars
President Xi Jinping is
JOHN GARNAUT returning politics to the The C ommunist Par ty’s that wound its way past Sydney leaders respond to the Party’s
Universities... commanding heights of war against liberal values University and UTS before latest instructions to “set up
need to find a way Chinese education. and its growing international revving engines outside the party cells in Sino-foreign joint
to reconcile their reach presents Australia with Indian consulate on August education projects” – as set out
scholarly values He’s told teachers to “educate challenges we've not seen before. 15, India’s Independence Day. in an edict from the Ministry of
and principles and guide their students to love “Anyone who offends China Education cited by the Beijing-
with the political the motherland, love the people, Last year the Ministry will b e killed,” s aid one of based advisory China Policy.
objectives of their and love the Communist Party of Education issued new the car door slogans, quoting The edict goes on to ensure that
dominant customer. of China.” He’s rallied lecturers instructions to its counsellors from China’s biggest grossing cadres are properly compensated
to “guard the party’s ideology” at diplomatic missions film, Wolf Warrior 2. Racial for the time-consuming work
8 and “dare to unsheath the around the world: “Build a chauvinism is only one of of “monitoring the ideological
sword.” And, most challenging multidimensional contact the challenges that Beijing is orientation of young faculty
for us, Xi has made clear that network linking home and exporting to universities. Look [members] and overseas
his primary enemies are the abroad – the motherland, at recent controversies involving returnees.”
liberal values that undermine his embassies and consulates, Cambridge University Press
political system but underpin overseas student groups, and and its experiment with mass The reputational and
our own. “There is no way that the broad number of students censorship. Or the enormous commercial risks for our
universities can allow teaching abroad – so that they fully feel private donations to Harvard. Or universities are potentially
materials preaching Western that the motherland cares.” the attacks on a Chinese student enormous. And there will be new
values into our classrooms,” Xi’s for praising the “fresh air” at the legal risks to navigate when the
Education Minister explained. And nowhere are the University of Maryland. Prime Minister and Attorney-
challenges greater than at our General deliver sweeping
The liberal values of freedom, universities. Singapore has just expelled counterintelligence reforms
equality and individual dignity a prominent professor of later this year. Mr Turnbull has
are under greater strain in China In recent months we've seen international relations – a made clear that he does not look
than they have been for decades. denunciations of Australian Chines e-b orn US citizen – kindly upon countries seeking
The room for rational debate university lecturers who have because he allegedly “knowingly advantage “through corruption,
and open, evidence-based offended B eijing’s patriotic interacted with intelligence interference or coercion.”
critical inquiry is shrinking. sensibilities. organisations” and “co-operated
And the political rewards for with them to influence the To manage these risks our
blind patriotism – a racialised A lecturer at the Australian Singapore government’s foreign universities will need to reach
patriotism that conflates “the National University was policy and public opinion in out to alienated students, fix
motherland” with “the party” excoriated on Chinese language Singapore.” the failures of integration
– are high and rising. social media channels for and improve their products.
“insensitively” displaying this This case has implications for They'll need full-spectrum
The challenge for the warning – “I will not tolerate the integrity of academic systems resilience strategies to shore up
democratic world is that Xi’s students who cheat” – in both ever ywhere. The professor’s vulnerabilities and uphold the
deepening struggle against English and Chinese. He was work, for example, features on principles of open and critical
liberal values does not end forced to issue a long apology the cover of the current edition inquiry which they are built
at C hina’s b orders. To t he for any implication that the of an influential Australian upon. Most of all, they will have
contrary, Xi has been rebuilding offenders spoke Chinese. university magazine. to look at what the Chinese
and reinvigorating the old Communist Party is doing on
revolutionary machinery – core A lecturer at the University of There can be no doubting the their campuses and do a better
institutions like the United Sydney was castigated for using pressure on universities to fill job of hearing what it says.
Front Work Department and its an online map of the world classrooms with full fee-paying
myriad platforms – to export his which, if you looked extremely foreign students, generate John Garnaut is founder of JG Global.
ideological battle to the world. closely, showed an Indian private donations, and rise up He was previously advisor to Prime
“Overseas Chinese have red- demarcation of the Himalayan the research rankings. Minister Malcolm Turnbull and
hot patriotic sentiment,” as Xi border. The lecturer apologised principal advisor for international
told delegates to the Seventh after being found guilty by a But they will need to find a policy at The Department of Prime
World Get-Together Meeting of WeChat group called Australian way to reconcile their scholarly Minister and Cabinet. For more
Overseas Chinese Social Groups, Red Scarf – which focused on values and principles with the information visit: goo.gl/Y2ivVg
early in his tenure. the lecturer’s Indian-looking political objectives of their
name. dominant customer.
And then there was the convoy How should university
of Bentleys and Lamborghinis
2017 Vision Times Special Edition
students, fix the failures of integration and improve their products.
PHOTO: YAN XIA
Our Universities Are a Frontline in
China’s Ideological Wars
President Xi Jinping is
JOHN GARNAUT returning politics to the The C ommunist Par ty’s that wound its way past Sydney leaders respond to the Party’s
Universities... commanding heights of war against liberal values University and UTS before latest instructions to “set up
need to find a way Chinese education. and its growing international revving engines outside the party cells in Sino-foreign joint
to reconcile their reach presents Australia with Indian consulate on August education projects” – as set out
scholarly values He’s told teachers to “educate challenges we've not seen before. 15, India’s Independence Day. in an edict from the Ministry of
and principles and guide their students to love “Anyone who offends China Education cited by the Beijing-
with the political the motherland, love the people, Last year the Ministry will b e killed,” s aid one of based advisory China Policy.
objectives of their and love the Communist Party of Education issued new the car door slogans, quoting The edict goes on to ensure that
dominant customer. of China.” He’s rallied lecturers instructions to its counsellors from China’s biggest grossing cadres are properly compensated
to “guard the party’s ideology” at diplomatic missions film, Wolf Warrior 2. Racial for the time-consuming work
8 and “dare to unsheath the around the world: “Build a chauvinism is only one of of “monitoring the ideological
sword.” And, most challenging multidimensional contact the challenges that Beijing is orientation of young faculty
for us, Xi has made clear that network linking home and exporting to universities. Look [members] and overseas
his primary enemies are the abroad – the motherland, at recent controversies involving returnees.”
liberal values that undermine his embassies and consulates, Cambridge University Press
political system but underpin overseas student groups, and and its experiment with mass The reputational and
our own. “There is no way that the broad number of students censorship. Or the enormous commercial risks for our
universities can allow teaching abroad – so that they fully feel private donations to Harvard. Or universities are potentially
materials preaching Western that the motherland cares.” the attacks on a Chinese student enormous. And there will be new
values into our classrooms,” Xi’s for praising the “fresh air” at the legal risks to navigate when the
Education Minister explained. And nowhere are the University of Maryland. Prime Minister and Attorney-
challenges greater than at our General deliver sweeping
The liberal values of freedom, universities. Singapore has just expelled counterintelligence reforms
equality and individual dignity a prominent professor of later this year. Mr Turnbull has
are under greater strain in China In recent months we've seen international relations – a made clear that he does not look
than they have been for decades. denunciations of Australian Chines e-b orn US citizen – kindly upon countries seeking
The room for rational debate university lecturers who have because he allegedly “knowingly advantage “through corruption,
and open, evidence-based offended B eijing’s patriotic interacted with intelligence interference or coercion.”
critical inquiry is shrinking. sensibilities. organisations” and “co-operated
And the political rewards for with them to influence the To manage these risks our
blind patriotism – a racialised A lecturer at the Australian Singapore government’s foreign universities will need to reach
patriotism that conflates “the National University was policy and public opinion in out to alienated students, fix
motherland” with “the party” excoriated on Chinese language Singapore.” the failures of integration
– are high and rising. social media channels for and improve their products.
“insensitively” displaying this This case has implications for They'll need full-spectrum
The challenge for the warning – “I will not tolerate the integrity of academic systems resilience strategies to shore up
democratic world is that Xi’s students who cheat” – in both ever ywhere. The professor’s vulnerabilities and uphold the
deepening struggle against English and Chinese. He was work, for example, features on principles of open and critical
liberal values does not end forced to issue a long apology the cover of the current edition inquiry which they are built
at C hina’s b orders. To t he for any implication that the of an influential Australian upon. Most of all, they will have
contrary, Xi has been rebuilding offenders spoke Chinese. university magazine. to look at what the Chinese
and reinvigorating the old Communist Party is doing on
revolutionary machinery – core A lecturer at the University of There can be no doubting the their campuses and do a better
institutions like the United Sydney was castigated for using pressure on universities to fill job of hearing what it says.
Front Work Department and its an online map of the world classrooms with full fee-paying
myriad platforms – to export his which, if you looked extremely foreign students, generate John Garnaut is founder of JG Global.
ideological battle to the world. closely, showed an Indian private donations, and rise up He was previously advisor to Prime
“Overseas Chinese have red- demarcation of the Himalayan the research rankings. Minister Malcolm Turnbull and
hot patriotic sentiment,” as Xi border. The lecturer apologised principal advisor for international
told delegates to the Seventh after being found guilty by a But they will need to find a policy at The Department of Prime
World Get-Together Meeting of WeChat group called Australian way to reconcile their scholarly Minister and Cabinet. For more
Overseas Chinese Social Groups, Red Scarf – which focused on values and principles with the information visit: goo.gl/Y2ivVg
early in his tenure. the lecturer’s Indian-looking political objectives of their
name. dominant customer.
And then there was the convoy How should university
of Bentleys and Lamborghinis
2017 Vision Times Special Edition
