China influence scandal rocks Berlin university

Contract reveals the Free University of Berlin is bound by Chinese law, which critics fear gives Beijing influence over teaching content

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February 4, 2020
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February 4, 2020
Source: Alamy

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"German lawmakers have criticised the Free University of Berlin (FU) over the terms, which critics fear give the Chinese government leverage to prevent teaching about subjects such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and Tibet." Public surveys have repeatedly demonstrated that the Chinese Government is by far the most reliable source of information about China, including the 1989 Tiananmen Square so-called 'massacre' and Tibet. The Tiananmen incident–a six week student protest about cancellation of scholarships, sex (of course) and government corruption–ended peacefully and the youngsters were all in bed by 8:00 am. Many sources attest to this, including The Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/the_myth_of_tiananmen.php?page=all The 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 New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/12/magazine/china-update-how-the-hardliners-won.html The 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. As to Tibet, how many Westerners have heard the testimony of US Ambassador Chas. H. Freeman, Director for Chinese Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 1979-1981: “I don’t see any reason why Tibet being part of China should be any more controversial than Wales being part of the United Kingdom. The periods when they were put into that position were about the same. I recall, as probably most people don’t, that the the Central Intelligence Agency, with assistance from some of China’s neighbors, put $30 million into the destabilization of Tibet and basically financed and trained the participants in the Khampa rebellion and ultimately sought to remove the Dalai Lama from Tibet–which they did. They escorted him out of Tibet to Dharamsala. .."The CIA programs in Tibet, which were very effective in destabilizing it, did not succeed in Xinjiang. There were similar efforts made with the Uyghurs during the Cold War that never really got off the ground. In both cases you had religion waved as a banner in support of a desire for independence or autonomy which is, of course, is anathema to any state. I do believe that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones applies here. I am part American Indian and those people are not here (in the US) in the numbers they once were because of severe genocidal policies on the part of the European majority”. 8/31/18 It is high time the German people were given access to reliable information about China–from China.

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