Experts call on Canadian universities to close off China's access to sensitive research
The U.S. State Department, over the past three months, has expelled more than a thousand Chinese 'high-risk graduate students and research scholars' working at American universities.
In Canada, the Commons Committee on Canada-China Relations heard similar allegations in testimony in the weeks leading up to prorogation including the claim that some of the core technology behind China's surveillance network was developed in Canadian universities.
'If we're partnering with China on these areas, our R&D ... could be going directly to the Chinese military,' said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, who spent decades in some of the federal government's top scientific posts and served on the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science & Technology before joining the University of Ottawa. She said AI and robotics are two areas of great interest to the Chinese military.
Source: CBC #Sep15
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-universities-research-waterloo-military-technology-1.5723846
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The U.S. State Department, over the past three months, has expelled more than a thousand Chinese 'high-risk graduate students and research scholars' working at American universities.
In Canada, the Commons Committee on Canada-China Relations heard similar allegations in testimony in the weeks leading up to prorogation including the claim that some of the core technology behind China's surveillance network was developed in Canadian universities.
'If we're partnering with China on these areas, our R&D ... could be going directly to the Chinese military,' said Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, who spent decades in some of the federal government's top scientific posts and served on the Canada-China Joint Committee on Science & Technology before joining the University of Ottawa. She said AI and robotics are two areas of great interest to the Chinese military.
Source: CBC #Sep15
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/china-canada-universities-research-waterloo-military-technology-1.5723846
#Canada #University #Scholar #CCPsurveillance
CBC
Experts call on Canadian universities to close off China's access to sensitive research | CBC News
Three Canadian universities are among the most active in the world when it comes to collaborative work with Chinese researchers. Now, some are calling on post-secondary institutions to take steps to keep the Chinese military away from Canadian science.
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#HKU Denies Contract Renewal for Renowned & Outspoken Hepatologist
At the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Faculty of Medicine's Professor of Medicine and Hepatology, Lai Ching-lung, rejected from renewing his contract.
This decision of the University management will possibly lead to the departure of Lai as early as in June 2021.
It was reported that the HKU's Faculty of Medicine had already recommended Lai to have his contract renewed, but the recommendation was not taken by the University Selection and Promotion Committee.
The 72 year-old professor is socially conscious, and had participated in a sit-in during the 2019 anti-ELAB movement wearing a black mask, holding a slogan condemning the police for "obscuring the truth".
In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, Lai also appeared at the rally for healthcare professionals fighting to lock Hong Kong's borders with China.
Source: Apple Daily, #Mar2
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210302/X7FFHG4DWBCCVL4MZEU5U4FNFQ/
#LaiChingLung #Scholar #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech
#HKU Denies Contract Renewal for Renowned & Outspoken Hepatologist
At the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Faculty of Medicine's Professor of Medicine and Hepatology, Lai Ching-lung, rejected from renewing his contract.
This decision of the University management will possibly lead to the departure of Lai as early as in June 2021.
It was reported that the HKU's Faculty of Medicine had already recommended Lai to have his contract renewed, but the recommendation was not taken by the University Selection and Promotion Committee.
The 72 year-old professor is socially conscious, and had participated in a sit-in during the 2019 anti-ELAB movement wearing a black mask, holding a slogan condemning the police for "obscuring the truth".
In 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, Lai also appeared at the rally for healthcare professionals fighting to lock Hong Kong's borders with China.
Source: Apple Daily, #Mar2
https://hk.appledaily.com/local/20210302/X7FFHG4DWBCCVL4MZEU5U4FNFQ/
#LaiChingLung #Scholar #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech
#PoliceState
#Taiwan #Scholar refutes HK government's labelling of police knifing incident as “local terrorism”
Source: HKCnews; #Jul7
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#Taiwan #Scholar refutes HK government's labelling of police knifing incident as “local terrorism”
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#Taiwan #Scholar refutes HK government's labelling of police knifing incident as “local terrorism”
In less than 4 hours after the police knifing incident took place in Causeway Bay on 1 July, 2021, the Hong Kong government's Secretary for Security #ChrisTang, hastily concluded the attack as a “lone-wolf terrorist act”.
Tang further condemned those attempted to pay tribute to the deceased man, calling such action as “glorifying terrorism and encouraging violence."
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary #JohnLee warned citizens against what he called "local terrorism" in his first blog post as the city’s second ranking official.
Taiwan scholar, #ShihChienGu who specializes in global counter-terrorism, however, considered such allegations unfounded.
He did not agree that public mourning advocates terrorism. Instead, he asked the Hong Kong Government to investigate reasons for the incident to render public sympathy.
Shih further explained that there are two basic concepts to Terrorism, one is whether it causes panic in society and the other is whether it has a political purpose.
The man who knifed the police officer didn’t cause social alarm. If the action was out of the man's discontentment, it is neither politically driven.
Shih opined that the assault against pro-democracy protesters in Yuen Long on 21 July 2019 was a terrorist attack as it shocked and provoked panic in local community. If the collusion between assailants and police is evident, the attack could be deemed a “state terrorism”. That is to say, the regime is using illegal means to intimidate its own people.
Shih Chien-yu is a guest professor in the Taiwan Tsinghua University.
Source: HKCnews; #Jul7
https://bit.ly/3wEWRZT
#StateTerrorism #Propaganda #WhiteTerror #Censorship
#Taiwan #Scholar refutes HK government's labelling of police knifing incident as “local terrorism”
In less than 4 hours after the police knifing incident took place in Causeway Bay on 1 July, 2021, the Hong Kong government's Secretary for Security #ChrisTang, hastily concluded the attack as a “lone-wolf terrorist act”.
Tang further condemned those attempted to pay tribute to the deceased man, calling such action as “glorifying terrorism and encouraging violence."
Meanwhile, Chief Secretary #JohnLee warned citizens against what he called "local terrorism" in his first blog post as the city’s second ranking official.
Taiwan scholar, #ShihChienGu who specializes in global counter-terrorism, however, considered such allegations unfounded.
He did not agree that public mourning advocates terrorism. Instead, he asked the Hong Kong Government to investigate reasons for the incident to render public sympathy.
Shih further explained that there are two basic concepts to Terrorism, one is whether it causes panic in society and the other is whether it has a political purpose.
The man who knifed the police officer didn’t cause social alarm. If the action was out of the man's discontentment, it is neither politically driven.
Shih opined that the assault against pro-democracy protesters in Yuen Long on 21 July 2019 was a terrorist attack as it shocked and provoked panic in local community. If the collusion between assailants and police is evident, the attack could be deemed a “state terrorism”. That is to say, the regime is using illegal means to intimidate its own people.
Shih Chien-yu is a guest professor in the Taiwan Tsinghua University.
Source: HKCnews; #Jul7
https://bit.ly/3wEWRZT
#StateTerrorism #Propaganda #WhiteTerror #Censorship