Zheng Zeguang, China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom—whom we must suppose was able to obtain a visa enabling him to go there—has been telling China’s students in Britain “to serve ‘the motherland’ and uphold the teachings of the Chinese Communist Party.”
Kick him out? At the very least, kick him out of the campuses of the universities that have been accommodating him. The Daily Mail is not reporting such a consequence, though (March 29, 2024).
China’s ambassador to the UK told students at British universities to serve ‘the motherland’ and uphold the teachings of the Chinese Communist Party, it has emerged.
Zheng Zeguang [shown above] was hosted by the Universities of York, Birmingham and Leeds last summer, and told Chinese students to ‘keep in mind’ the words of president Xi Jinping.
It comes after the ambassador was summoned to the Foreign Office this week when it emerged Beijing had launched a cyber attack on MPs.
Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the events showed universities were ‘in hock’ to the communist state….
MPs warned of Beijing’s growing influence in the UK’s higher education system last year.
A report by Parliament’s intelligence and security committee noted there was ‘pressure on institutions…to prevent engagement with topics that harm the positive narrative presented by the Chinese Communist Party.’
British universities are heavily subsidized and influenced by the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese military. Manifestations of this influence, including the willingness of University of Nottingham to shutter its School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, were recounted in a 2023 documentary produced by Britain’s Channel 4, “Secrets and Power: China in the UK.”
Also see:
StopTheChinazis.org: “Peter Wilby Sees Right-Wingers Under Bed, CCP in UK Universities”
“Well, which is it, Wilby? Some of the alarm-raising about the threat of Chinese influence over British universities ‘may be scaremongering’ by ‘Tory MPs and thinktanks and rightwing papers such as the Telegraph—always eager to find reds under the bed’? Or the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on academia is evidently a real and massive threat?”
StopTheChinazis.org: “Are British Universities Taking Marching Orders From China?”
“So a China rep summoned a University of Nottingham rep and told him that a politician from Taiwan could not speak on the Nottingham campus. Then the Nottingham rep told Tsang that the politician from Taiwan could not speak on the Nottingham campus.”
StopTheChinazis.org: “Chinese Communist Party Adds to Agitprop on U.S. Campuses”
“A primary means of waging the cognitive warfare is the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, an organization that the CCP started in the 1970s.”
