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beiwang002 发表于 2012-10-5 20:36 ![]()
算了,不说这个话题了。还是那些平时对新闻联播最嗤之以鼻的人最相信新闻联播了。说白了,还是选择性相信而 ...
我在telegraph找到了这个原文,根本没有提到你转的那个地址里面那些破轮子的事
多学点英语少看点破轮子吧
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/new ... chinese-foundation/
Cambridge University has accepted £3.7m from a Chinese foundation to endow a new professorship into Development Studies. In these cash-strapped times for higher education in Britain, it is easy to think we should be cheering such developments. But in this case there is cause for grave misgivings.
You can read a full report here, but the key fact is this: the donation has been given by a completely unknown, anonymous Chinese foundation called “Chong Hua”.
Who are they? Well it’s impossible to know. Chong Hua has no website, no listed office in Britain, no record of its funding, no published list of trustees, no public mission statement. It is completely and utterly opaque. Cambridge, despite repeated requests by The Telegraph and academics within the University, refuses to shed light on who, or what, is Chong Hua.
Their spokesman says that the donation has been “scrutinised formally by the executive committee of our university council” and that “our investigation did not identify any link between this private foundation and the Chinese Government”.
That is not good enough. Having spent the last three years in China, I can report from experience that the China is chock full of foundations and companies that are impossible to fathom. Ownership, even of publicly quoted companies, is almost never clear; due diligence is virtually impossible to perform, which is why Cambridge must show transparency on this “investigation” for it to be credible.
There is another reason to demand clarity about this donation.
The don who is due to be the first recipient of the Chong Hua professorship is Peter Nolan, a well-respected China academic, who also happens to have published a book and several papers with Liu Chunhang, the son-in-law of Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister.
Mr Liu, 40, is currently the head of both the statistics and research departments at the China Bank Regulatory Commission, highly influential positions in a country where all major banks are owned by the state. Professor Nolan is also said by colleagues, including one I spoke to in China, to have taught Wen Ruchun, the daughter of Wen Jiabao.
Unfortunately, Professor Nolan won’t accept questions from the press, but since this donation emanates from a world run on the basis of guanxi – connections and favours – the need for clarity over a donation is all the more pressing.
The reality is that rising China is a highly authoritarian, state-capitalist entity whose ideological underpinning is almost diametrically opposed to that of the West. It is currently spending untold amounts of money– we can’t know how much, but like everything else in China it’s a state secret – on its "soft power", projecting an image abroad that (I can vouch from experience) is at odds with the reality at home.
The world desperately needs dialogue with China, but it must be on the level.
If China wants to come and make its case, openly, for the Beijing consensus and its development model, for its internet censorship, land grabs and extra-judicial detentions that it says are a necessary evil for growth and stability, then that should be encouraged.
But allowing unknown, undeclared Chinese entities to fund a Professorial chair of Chinese development at Cambridge is not a wise course of action. |
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