When I first wrote, many moons ago, that we should bulldoze the universities and start again from scratch, I was half-joking. I’ve joked less and less every time I’ve repeated myself. Now, I’m pretty much deadly serious. The university sector has become not just unfit for purpose, but inimical in almost every way to the nation’s interests.
It’s not just that they’ve largely abandoned teaching for self-serving ‘research’ that does nothing but meet KPIs. It’s not that they’re nearly completely dominated by far-left groupthink. It’s not that they’re corroding free speech. It’s not even that they’re riddled with institutional anti-Semitism. Nor that they’ve willingly become a keystone in a backdoor immigration programme for the Third World.
All of those are damnable enough, but what crowns them all is their unconscionable, greedy eagerness to sell their country out to a brutal communist dictatorship.
Universities Australia is inking a deal with China to boost research collaboration and student exchanges – including joint research with the Chinese government.
In other words, allow China to plunder as much of Australia’s intellectual property as it pleases and give China an open door to sensitive defence data. Why don’t they just roll out the red carpet for the PLA while they’re at it?
Visiting Beijing, UA chair Carolyn Evans said China and Australia “must encourage the flow of students between our countries’’.
No, they mustn’t.
Has this idiotic bint paid the least attention to what China has been up to for decades? China has stolen billions, perhaps trillions, of dollars’ worth of intellectual property from Western nations for years. One survey found that one in five corporations had reported China stealing IP every year.
They’re not even hiding it, either. The so-called ‘Thousand Talents Program’ openly incentivises Chinese researchers sent abroad to steal foreign technology and innovation. All with the willing help of the treacherous idiots running Australia’s universities.
Research collaboration with Chinese companies is a sensitive security issue for Australia because of concern over industry’s official links with the Chinese Communist Party.
Professor Evans said Monash University in Melbourne had a joint research institute with China’s Southeast University, involving 300 staff from the two institutions working on advanced materials, energy, life sciences and smart cities.
Not to mention defence. Chinese hackers have stolen gigabytes of classified defence data from Australian researchers and contractors.
Anyone who willingly co-operates in this open pillage is bordering on treasonous.
Australia’s spy agency has told universities to hire security escorts for foreign scientists and academics, and keep gifts out of high-security zones to safeguard research from espionage.
Or, just curb their unconscionable greed and cut ties with the Chinese Communist dictatorship.
ASIO warns that “foreign powers may attempt to interfere with any academic activity they see as threatening their interests’’.
“They may try to shape academic inquiry, language, or course content to reflect their preferred narratives and silence dissenting views,’’ its guidance states.
They already are, and universities are fully co-operating. Not only are they changing course content at the direction of CCP operatives, China’s thugs are also openly policing students on campus. Not just Chinese students, either: Australian student Drew Pavlou was beaten up by CCP goons when he organised a pro-Tibet rally on campus. University administrators joined in, drumming up fake ‘theft’ charges to suspend the anti-China gadfly. All while pocketing fortunes from the CCP.
ASIO has issued all universities with detailed instructions for shielding science and technology research from foreign spies.
“Even legitimate academic engagement with partners can cause damage to the national interest and present a national security threat,’’ ASIO’s guidelines state.
“This is particularly the case if the research or data relates to dual-use technology or military capability” […]
Universities are warned that spies can pose as academics, industry figures, journalists or members of think-tanks in a bid to steal research secrets.
“Be alert to the threat and recognise the value of the information and access you hold,’’ ASIO’s advice states.
Oh, they’re well aware, be sure. They just don’t care: they’ll happily sell every secret their country has, so long as the rivers of Chinese gold keep flowing.
Bulldoze the universities. Sack every academic and administrator. Nuke the entire sector and start again from scratch.
It’s the only way to be sure.
