China says its colleges must champion core socialist values

Associated Press ^ | Jan 20, 2015 12:33 AM EST | Jack Chang

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China’s leadership has issued guidelines requiring universities to strengthen ideological controls in classrooms and telling professors to champion Marxism, traditional culture and socialist core values.

The orders come as President Xi Jinping tightens his grip on political power and cracks down on the encroachment of supposed Western values such as press freedom and civil society groups. […]

… Willy Lam, a political analyst at Chinese University in Hong Kong, said other professors were reporting tighter controls, including government monitors filing covert reports on classroom lectures. Control over professors has significantly tightened since Xi took power in late 2012, Lam said.

“For intellectuals, this is a disturbing phenomenon. It’s a return to Maoist values,” he said. …

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All socialism is about money worship.