Dutch university gives up Chinese funding due to impartiality concerns

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  1. It’s a bit more than just ‘impartiality concerns’. As the article says, one of the associates said: “Xinjiang is just lovely, Lovely people, breathtaking nature, great food. And no forced labour, no genocide, or whatever other lies the western media might come up with.”

    This wasn’t just a research center not being impartial, this was a research center being paid to repeat Chinese propaganda.

  2. > Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit (VU), the fourth largest university in the Netherlands, has said it will accept no further money from the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and repay sums it recently received.

    > The announcement came after an investigation by the Dutch public broadcaster NOS last week revealed VU’s Cross Cultural Human Rights Center (CCHRC) had received between €250,000 (£210,000) and €300,000 annually from Southwest over the past few years.

    Is the Dutch government going to replace this funding? Or are the students, yet again, to be the ones who are going to be left behind. Not stated in the article, any Dutchese here?

  3. China has the money and power no EU country has. As most europe is highly indebted and has serious problems to keep up with all the new products and services from China and USA, it’s just a matter of time that we fade and become basically puppet states. Unless we make something about it, which seems the whole continent is unwilling to.

    It’s sad, but it is what it is.

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