CHINA-INTERNAL: PROPAGANDA CONTROLS ON ACADEMIC RESEARCH

 Qiushi, the authoritative Party theoretical journal, on May 1, 2016, published the full transcript of a high-level meeting held in December 2015 to improve the Central Party School's work. President Xi Jinping issued a stern warning to teachers at the Communist Party’s training institutes against spreading “Western capitalist values” and bad-mouthing state policies. He said: “I have heard reports that some people disseminated Western capitalism values when lecturing at party schools, some talked out of turn and made reckless comments on party and state policies. Some people purposely [focused on] finding faults, grumbling and making cynical remarks, and some took part in improper social events at will under the golden reputation of the party school.” He asserted that “exploratory academic matters” should not be confused with “serious political issues” and “allowing research into academic matters does not mean that [teachers] can talk out of turn or make any comment they like. We say there are no forbidden zones for academic research ... but ‘no forbidden zone’ is not an absolute thing.” He added “Wrong opinions in violation of the party’s theories, strategies and policies are not allowed in party schools [whether] publicly or in private.”

 






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