Communist Party President Xi Jinping unveils plaque for the first Confucius Institute for Chinese Medicine in Australia June 20, 2010 Melbourne
The Chinese Communist Party‘s attempt to set up Confucius Institutes in foreign countries as an advance guard for the Great Foreign Propaganda was last mentioned in this program as it lent its weight to the former Dean of the Law School of the University of Strasbourg, France, Mester, and to a number of French universities that are being subjected to the Chinese government’s desperate attempts to squeeze Confucius Institutes into their campuses. Mester, a China affairs fixer, is particularly in tune and cooperative with the official Chinese Communist Party, and this is the odd French top cadre that deserves further observation. In the past few years, the authorities of the Alsace department, to which the University of Strasbourg belongs, have even experienced the Chinese government’s use of the Confucius Institute to play a leading role in the long-term operation of infiltration into the university, causing concern in the French academic community and public opinion. In addition, we may not have noticed in the past that the first Confucius Institute set up by the Chinese Communist Party in France, the Chinese state-owned enterprise ZTE Corporation could be said to have played an important role and made a great contribution. These details and the long-standing practices of the Chinese Communist Party have recently been revealed in lengthy reports in the French media, and we continue to provide further information in this China World.
Robin, a Tibetologist professor at the French Institute of Oriental Languages in Paris, mentioned the Time when she invited the Dalai Lama to a seminar and was stalked by Chinese officials and approached them 2 times. She recalled that at that time, there were 2 visits from the Chinese Communist side, but verbally, they would not be so considerate of the need to be subtle in their attitude. She recounted that there were plans to send 30 exchange students to China, and she was concerned that the plans would be thwarted by inviting the Dalai Lama to a seminar. The rector at the time, Manuelle Franck, was a member of the faculty. Manuelle Franck was introduced to the stage during the seminar and attended the entire event. The Chinese Embassy had forbidden her to do so. But as a result, that too was not done. She even went to China later in December to sign a new cooperation agreement. Therefore, she said, one should not back down in the face of the Chinese Communist Party’s pressure. Otherwise they see you as weak.
When the Alsace region, to which the University of Strasbourg belongs, signed an agreement with the Communist Party in late 2000 to set up a Confucius Institute, they probably made the same claim as the Institut Supérieur de la Politique in Paris. 2008 was the first time China tried to ask for a Confucius Institute at the University of Strasbourg, and it met its Waterloo, so the Confucius Institute was set up outside. “Since the fall of 2012, the University of Strasbourg has been under a lot of pressure, not only from the Chinese Communist Party, but also from the Region to set up the Confucius Institute at the University,” reveals Bizais-Lillig, an expert in Chinese literature. At that time they tried to find a compromise. The initial agreement was supposed to be reached in April 2013. The Communist authorities said that they would provide Alsace with new investment projects if the Confucius Institute was attached to the university. University scholars then proposed a montage of ways to integrate the Confucius Institutes by name, but keep them in their original location, independent of the university, a series of “failed attempts” that also showed the caution of the Strasbourg university professors. Then, in September 2013, the Chinese Communist Party also sent Confucius to Lyon to open up a new territory, but this time it was the turn of the faculty of the University of Lyon to refuse to integrate Confucius into the second and third universities of Lyon, so the establishment of the institute was a failure. After four years of relatively liberal educational approaches to the operation of Confucius Institutes, the Chinese Communist Party’s Hanban eventually wanted to implement a kind of censorship process, which also caused a lot of backlash.
China’s Confucius Institute series network, with 18 Confucius Institutes in France. The first, opened in October 2005 at the University of Poitiers under a partnership with Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer ZTE, closed its Confucius Institute in 2013 after the Lyon university refused to accept censorship under pressure from Beijing. The following year, 2014, following another incident of Chinese Communist censorship at the Confucius Institute in Braga, Portugal, several Western universities, including Stockholm, Sweden, and Chicago, USA, also withdrew from this Confucius Institute program. In France, the 18th Confucius Institute is to be established in Pau in 2019. By 2020, the Confucius Institute CI network in the United States will be classified as a “diplomatic mission,” allowing U.S. authorities to monitor it more effectively and address its operations of foreign influence.
While the Chinese Communist Party has been using a hybrid approach to foreign affairs, Mestre, a European law expert at the university, has become a champion of Beijing’s affairs while French sinologists are being frightened. According to an email sent by the dean himself, in September 2014, a series of demonstrations against Tibet were organized in his department, and conferences, exhibitions, dances and concerts were organized “at the request of the Chinese Communist Consulate General in Strasbourg”. At his departure in early 2015, the then Chinese Consul General Zhang Guobin congratulated “Ms. Fei Jin-Mestre for her efforts in planning and organizing many cultural and artistic events, and expressed his sincere gratitude” at his departure reception. The wife of the dean, a former student of the Strasbourg School of Management, founded in early 2013 an association called Sinostras, a company set up to organize the activities of the “Tibet Week”.
Ein drot and Nicolas Nord, lecturers at the University of Strasbourg, recalled, “At the opening of the seminar, the president stressed that Tibet had never been annexed by the Chinese Communist Party and that the Communist intervention in 1950 had been at the request of the Tibetans.”
According to Nord, it is ironic that Meister, who was his teacher in the 1990s and taught, used the Chinese Communist invasion of Tibet as an example in class, pointing out that it was a classic example of aggression in international law.
In short, many of his colleagues were disgusted after Dean Meister’s full force acted as a punching bag for the Chinese Communist Party, as it also indicated that they would have to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Consulate in the future. In 2015, Mester joined forces with China to organize the “China-Europe Human Rights Forum”, a Chinese society for the study of human rights, which was in fact a fake and disguised group of independent scholars organized and set up by the CCP in 1993, under the direction of a public affairs department of the CCP’s propaganda ministry. In fact it is basically a whitewashing operation in various European institutions. And ironically, Meister retorts to the public that this is not a CPSU group. And his good friend, Zhang Guobin, the former consul general of the CCP in Strasbourg, has also become one of the leaders of this independent association.
CCP works on Meister
Meister was not elected president in 2016, but it seems that French officials frightened by Chinese Culture listened to Chinese Communist propaganda. After his unsuccessful bid, however, Meister he left there, but he still describes himself to the public as the honorary dean of the law school in Spaulding.
Meister spent some time teaching at the College of Europe in Bruges and increased his travels to China. Assistant Professor Nord. Reveals that one of Meister’s motivations was to be treated like a king when he traveled to China.
Meister was rector of l’université Robert-Schuman from 1998 to 2003, which later merged with the University of Strasbourg. His promotion here also did not go well, just as it did during his deanship.
Meister, who is adept at drilling holes to find opportunities, was offered a professorship at Southwest University in Chongqing in 2017 and a senior official position at China’s Chahar Society, the report noted.
Roland, a fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Studies, a U.S. think tank, noted that the Chahar Institute is one of the three most important think tanks in China, and its chapter in the West is an independent institution, but in China, the so-called independence is only theoretical. In practice, it is merely a rubber stamp for the Chinese Communist Party.
In the case of the Chahar Institute, the founding president is Han Fangming, who is also the deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. And former Consul General of Strasbourg Zhao Guobin is the secretary general of the Chahar Society, and then Meister easily gets a part-time, high-ranking official position in the Chahar Society.
According to Opinion magazine, this global seduction strategy targets the “neglected,” the disillusioned, the neglected, the countries and regions ignored by liberal globalization and the Western camp, as well as second- or third-rate institutions like certain French universities and other organizations. In this parallel diplomacy of the Chinese Communist Party, it conceals its ambitions and chastening themes against the Western democracies. In the long run, everything is “coated with honey” and has the image of a “civilization of peace,” concludes Nadège Rolland, a scholar in the field of defense and security. “. She also warned in advance that “in reality, it is not a soft power, but a hard power, an Orwellian hard power.”
Roland also warned that while the United Front stood up to defend China’s resistance to the Uighurs or to deal with the Hong Kong people, Meister said with aplomb, “I am not paid at all by the Chinese Chahar Society.” But on the other hand, he admits that he is paid to be a professor at Chongqing University. He said, “I do this out of friendship, for the members of the think tank.” This is truly an example of how senior French management officials and the Chinese Communist Party propaganda ministry work together seamlessly!
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