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Pro-China nationalists are using intimidation to silence critics. Can they be countered without stifling free speech?
Last month, the University of New South Wales came under harsh criticism after its media team deleted an article and tweet in which Elaine Pearson, the...
The tweet enraged some in the Chinese student community in Australia, who organised an aggressive campaign targeting UNSW’s social media channels.
- Yun Jiang
- The Conversation
Pearson later said, the incident shook her:
- the pro-Chinese Communist Party students certainly don’t have to agree with my remarks. But I was still somewhat shocked at the ferocity of their response, and disappointed at the university’s feeble reaction.
As I have written in a…