Universities in U.K. have effectively been \u0027bought\u0027 by the China, Parliament’s intelligence and security committee finds
Meanwhile, academics and students are facing intimidation from Chinese state authorities, and the committee accused Beijing of infiltrating universities to steal research which could benefit their militaries.
Prof Steve Tsang, of the School for Oriental and African Studies, told the committee that within six months of him taking up the role, a political councillor from the Chinese embassy approached him and offered him anything he wanted in an attempt to curry favour.China tries to use access to visas as leverage, the MPs found. Prof Tsang said: “You say something they don’t like, they deny you a visa.
According to researchers from the Henry Jackson Society, job applications posted by Chinese universities, which have partnerships to run Confucius Institutes with British counterparts including Cardiff, Southampton and Huddersfield, ask applicants to describe their “political profile/characteristics” and “ethnicity”.Article content
Chinese students in the U.K. are also being monitored by more than 90 Chinese Students and Scholars Associations , partly financed by the Chinese embassy.Article content “Pressure is exerted on institutions, academics and students to prevent engagement with topics that harm the positive narrative presented by the Chinese Communist Party,” the MPs said.Article content
The post – entitled “Brothers from Chengdu, beat him to death” – contained the flight number and a call for him to be arrested by police or assaulted by citizens. It was shared 10,000 times.Article content “In Sheffield, there are nearly 4,000 Chinese students and only a few hundred Hong Kong students… It’s the fear of what they might do that scares us. We are sure we will be on watch lists when we go home.”Article content
“Within 48 hours, I had the-then Chinese ambassador on the phone saying: ‘This is a disgraceful insult to the People’s Republic of China’ and so on,” he said. He refused to intervene.Article content For example, the University of Manchester’s National Graphene Institute launched a five-year collaborative programme with China’s Aero Engine Corporation to “accelerate the application of graphene in the aviation industry and other sectors”.Article content
“The Government noted that research related to engineering or physical sciences was most likely to have a defence use .
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