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Skybird · 10-25-21, 07:36 AM

Der Spiegel writes on another act of German servility towards China:

At the University of Duisburg there was supposed to be a reading on a book about China's head of state Xi Jinping - but the People's Republic apparently intervened.

The organizers were two Confucius Institutes that have been criticized for a long time.

Actually, an online reading on the book "Xi Jinping - the most powerful man in the world" should have taken place this Wednesday at the University of Duisburg. The authors - Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL and today publisher of "Welt", and long-time China correspondent Adrian Geiges - wanted to present the biography there. But the reading was canceled. Apparently there was pressure from China. This is what the Piper publishing house, where the book was published, announced.

The organizers were the Confucius Institutes at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Leibniz University of Hanover. There, too, the same reading should be shown in a stream. Tongji University Shanghai, which the Confucius Institute operates jointly with Leibniz University, is said to have intervened in Hanover. In Duisburg, according to the publisher, the Consul General of China in Düsseldorf intervened personally.

An employee of the Confucius Institute is said to have summarized the reason for this as follows: "You can no longer talk about Xi Jinping as a normal person, he should now be inviolable and unspeakable."

Author Stefan Aust believes the incident confirms the basic theses of the book: "For the first time, a dictatorship is in the process of overtaking the West economically and is now also trying to enforce its values that are directed against our freedom internationally."

Piper publisher Felicitas von Lovenberg called the cancellation "a disturbing and disturbing signal". The other readings on the book should take place as planned, including on Tuesday in the city library in Freiburg and on Thursday in a tea house in Hamburg.

Despite massive criticism, many German universities are still working with the Chinese Confucius Institute. At the end of December last year, the “Human Rights for China” association asked 17 German universities to end their collaboration with the Chinese Confucius Institute.

According to the official interpretation, the institutions should make Chinese culture and language accessible abroad. But the Chinese institutions abroad cannot be compared with the German Goethe Institutes. Human rights activists see them as a propaganda and espionage tool for the Communist Party. The USA, Canada and Sweden ended the cooperation, as did universities in France, Belgium and even Russia. In Germany, Hamburg and Düsseldorf have already withdrawn.

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Skybird Soaring Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: the mental asylum named Germany Posts: 40,548 Downloads: 9 Uploads: 0	Der Spiegel writes on another act of German servility towards China: At the University of Duisburg there was supposed to be a reading on a book about China's head of state Xi Jinping - but the People's Republic apparently intervened. The organizers were two Confucius Institutes that have been criticized for a long time. Actually, an online reading on the book "Xi Jinping - the most powerful man in the world" should have taken place this Wednesday at the University of Duisburg. The authors - Stefan Aust, former editor-in-chief of SPIEGEL and today publisher of "Welt", and long-time China correspondent Adrian Geiges - wanted to present the biography there. But the reading was canceled. Apparently there was pressure from China. This is what the Piper publishing house, where the book was published, announced. The organizers were the Confucius Institutes at the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Leibniz University of Hanover. There, too, the same reading should be shown in a stream. Tongji University Shanghai, which the Confucius Institute operates jointly with Leibniz University, is said to have intervened in Hanover. In Duisburg, according to the publisher, the Consul General of China in Düsseldorf intervened personally. An employee of the Confucius Institute is said to have summarized the reason for this as follows: "You can no longer talk about Xi Jinping as a normal person, he should now be inviolable and unspeakable." Author Stefan Aust believes the incident confirms the basic theses of the book: "For the first time, a dictatorship is in the process of overtaking the West economically and is now also trying to enforce its values that are directed against our freedom internationally." Piper publisher Felicitas von Lovenberg called the cancellation "a disturbing and disturbing signal". The other readings on the book should take place as planned, including on Tuesday in the city library in Freiburg and on Thursday in a tea house in Hamburg. *Despite massive criticism, many German universities are still working with the Chinese Confucius Institute.* At the end of December last year, the “Human Rights for China” association asked 17 German universities to end their collaboration with the Chinese Confucius Institute. According to the official interpretation, the institutions should make Chinese culture and language accessible abroad. But the Chinese institutions abroad cannot be compared with the German Goethe Institutes. Human rights activists see them as a propaganda and espionage tool for the Communist Party. The USA, Canada and Sweden ended the cooperation, as did universities in France, Belgium and even Russia. In Germany, Hamburg and Düsseldorf have already withdrawn. __________________ If you feel nuts, consult an expert.