CHINA-HONGKONG: CHINA-OWNED TA KUNG PAO CRITICISES UGC FOR GIVING RESEARCH FUNDING TO A "HONG KONG INDEPENDENCE" ACTIVIST
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The China-owned Hongkong-based "Ta Kung Pao" on February 8 criticised the University Grants
Commission (UGC) Research and Development Bureau for still granting 5.86 million yuan in research
funding to the "Hong Kong independence" activist Fang Zhiheng, despite earlier objections by the Audit
Commission. It noted that the RGC has been accused of being a "cash machine" for anti-China scholars who
have disrupted Hong Kong and whose "so-called research provided pseudo-academic theories and
brainwashing mobilization for the subsequent social unrest". It quoted Liu Zhaojia, Vice President of the
National Association for Hong Kong, and Macau Studies, who said that the social sciences and humanities
in Hong Kong's higher education sector have long been "colonies" of the West, and their evaluation criteria
can no longer be blindly followed by "ghosts", and must establish their own evaluation criteria and papers
release channel.
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