Publishers choose between self-censorship in China and import ban

Publishers have shown ( at least those who have complied withe shameful chinese policy ) that they are mere businessmen and women .Period

The irony that appears to have escaped the writer is the increasingly oppressive censorship in western universities of ideas that contravene political correctness. I teach in the tertiary sector in China and I am much freer to say certain things here than I am in the west. Even being critical of political correctness or mentioning “free speech” is enough to get one into trouble in many western institutions, while social media software is increasingly stringent in screening out it shadow banning dissenters. And academic publishing is even worse. Until we in the West acknowledge and address our own censorship issues, we have no moral high ground on which to criticise countries like China.

A brief review of the banned CUP journal articles suggests that they should have been retracted by their authors long ago since they refer to non-existent events like a massacre in Tiananmen Square that even the US State Department admits did not happen. Curious readers may satisfy their curiosity on the subject here: The Columbia Journalism Review critiques coverage of Tiananmen: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all US State Department's cables at the time: http://www.alternativeinsight.com/Tiananmen.html The Massacre that Wasn’t: http://www.globalresearch.ca/what-really-happened-in-tiananmen-square-25-years-ago/5385528 Britain's Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8555142/Wikileaks-no-bloodshed-inside-Tiananmen-Square-cables-claim.htm Australian prof. Greg Clark http://www.gregoryclark.net/jt/page116/page116.html