Posted on 02/09/2021 8:46:00 AM PST by SeekAndFind
University's Wykeham chair of physics will now be known as Tencent-Wykeham chair in honour of the computing conglomerate, Oxford sources have revealed
Oxford University is to rename a prestigious professorship of physics after a Chinese software company accused of close links with the Communist regime’s intelligence services in return for a £700,000 donation, the Daily Mail has learned.
The Wykeham chair of physics, which was established in 1900 and comes with a fellowship at 14th-century New College, will now be known as the Tencent-Wykeham chair in honour of the computing conglomerate, Oxford sources revealed.
Last night, as two former Cabinet ministers urged Oxford to reconsider, it became clear the decision has set the university on a collision course with its own most senior official.
Lord Patten, Oxford’s Chancellor and the last British governor of Hong Kong, said he could not comment on the grant from Tencent because he had known nothing about it until he was contacted by the Mail.
But he added: ‘I’m strongly in favour of the proposal to do a comprehensive survey of relationships between China and all our universities.
Given that China has become a surveillance state, is probably guilty of genocide against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, and is snuffing out freedom in Hong Kong, we should be looking at these relationships very beadily.
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The West commits suicide!
If I had the money. I would endow the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism at Harvard, or Oxford, or some place. I bet they wouldn’t balk.
Tencent? Sounds like a rap group.
Everything is for sale, just a matter of price.
RE: Everything is for sale, just a matter of price.
£700,000 is a very small price. Is Oxford really that desperate for money?
“If I had the money. I would endow the Joseph Goebbels School of Journalism at Harvard, or Oxford, or some place. I bet they wouldn’t balk.”
For the right price, you bet your arse they’d do it.
“£700,000 is a very small price. Is Oxford really that desperate for money?”
Some whores cost more than others.
A few lines from one of many article about similar topic:
“American universities have reported more than a billion dollars in gifts from China and Hong Kong since 2014, making China their largest source of foreign donations. During that same period, some U.S. government agencies and American academics themselves have grown increasingly concerned about China’s influence within U.S. academia....Hannah Reale in The Wire.
And
Harvard leads U.S. colleges that received $1 billion from Chinawww.inquirer.com › education › china-funding-us-coll...
Feb 7, 2020 — “China is a threat to the world in a sense, because they’re building a military faster than anybody and, frankly, they’re using U.S. money,” Trump ...
China exploited its unlimited supply of cheap labor and accumulated billions over the last decade or two. Now they are using the west’s own money to subvert and buy the governments they wish to dominate. Talk about your long term geopolitical strategy. Brilliant!
“America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within.”
200 British academic scholars are under investigation for
supplying CCP with military technology....Daily Mail, yesterday
Henceforth to be known as the Wokeham chair...
The British have always been for sale. Ethics do no matter.
Want a title? The queen will sell you one for the right price.
Want a building name after yourself? Let’s make a deal
Death of the West - bump for later.....
These dictators must be so amused at how cheap westerners are.
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