China is fighting the inevitable:
the Middle Kingdom sacked a university dean, Zhang Ming, for fisking government policies on his blog.
"Universities have become an officialdom ... The over-intervention and manipulation of academia by power definitely fetters its growth," Zhang was quoted as saying.
"How is China's academia doing now? Does anybody overseas read papers written by Chinese scholars? Plagiarism and theft are rampant ... Obedient kids are being taught to be minions."
Once people start speaking truth to power, the tide has already turned. The CCP has been fighting a delaying action since before Tianenmen Square, and the fact that this dean only lost his administrative position (not his professorship) bespeaks the inroads western ideas and open information have already made, at least among the intelligentsia.
"They told me that I should be punished for ... breaking the 'hidden rules'," the 50-year-old was quoted as saying.
Hat tip to
Drudge.
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