The South China Morning Post on September 5, reported that one of China’s top political scientists, Zheng Yongnian, is being investigated by the National University of Singapore (NUS) over allegations of sexual harassment by a female employee at its East Asian Institute (EAI) think-tank. The Singapore university said in a statement on September 2,  that Zheng Yongnian had resigned from the institute and NUS to join an institution overseas, and been granted leave until the expiry of his contract later this month. The university did not say when he resigned. It is learnt he has taken up a post at CUHK-Shenzhen.

(Comment: Zheng Yongnian's 'removal' from the University comes two weeks after he was part of the small group of experts who participated in Xi Jinping's roundtable on the 14th FYP.)