The former executive president of the University of Queensland (UQ), Mr. Hoy, was officially appointed president of the University of Adelaide on Monday (8). In the latter part of his tenure at the University of Queensland, Hoy has been criticized for his pro-communist performance, including ordering a two-year suspension of students who showed solidarity with Hong Kong people and Uighurs, and serving as a global advisor and trustee of the Confucius Institute. Critics say Hoy relies on his ties with China to raise funds, and criticize the academy for putting profits ahead of national security. Some netizens have started a petition asking Australian intelligence organizations to investigate Hoy’s ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
Peter Hoj, a Danish-born biochemist, officially became executive president of the University of Adelaide on Monday for a five-year term.
Hoj has been at the helm of the University of Queensland for the past eight years, but has been criticized for his close ties to Beijing.
University of Technology Sydney political science professor Feng Chongyi told the station that it was not surprising that Hoy, who received financial support from China, was promoted.
They are going to establish a lot of ties with China and recruit a lot of International Students from China to come over and oppose a series of security legislation in Australia under the brand name of “academic independence” and “science without borders”. Politically national security is not their concern, so it is not at all surprising that they let these people get promoted.
In recent years, the Australian government has begun to wake up to the infiltration and expansion of the Chinese Communist Party, and has introduced a series of anti-infiltration and foreign intervention bills, including the new Foreign Relations Bill passed last December, which takes back the power of local and state governments and universities to enter into agreements with foreign governments, and the biggest resistance to these bills has come from the academic community.
Feng criticized universities for not considering national security out of interest. He argued that the academia is a major vulnerability to the Chinese Communist Party’s insane infiltration, which poses a security risk not only to Australia but also to the “Five Eyes Alliance” countries that share military intelligence and information. He pointed out that the pro-Beijing Hoy’s re-emergence as president of a prestigious university is a serious and realistic proposition for democracies on how to legislate to restrain universities and their heads from linking with the CCP.
Feng Chongyi said: Confucius Institute is a child’s play, many universities are more direct and many Chinese research institutions, universities, and even the military to establish a very wide range of exchanges; if China can not get from the U.S. side, it can turn a corner to Australia to get the most sophisticated research results and technology in the United States, “five-eye alliance” can not be defended, because there are many loopholes in the law, if the university is profit-oriented, it can not plug This loophole.
In July 2019, Hoy, then executive president of the University of Queensland, presented a visiting professorship to Xu Jie, the Chinese Communist Party’s consul general in Brisbane.
Australian media earlier revealed that Hoy had turned around the University of Queensland’s financial woes and achieved a surplus by expanding international student recruitment and establishing new business partnerships with other countries.
Australian Values Coalition member and commentator Huang Fujing said the University of Adelaide saw Hoy’s relationship with the Chinese Communist Party as a way to “save” the University financially in the future, and that the University was a black hole that the Chinese Communist Party could continue to infiltrate.
Huangfu Jing said: At the University of Queensland, Hoy’s ties with the Chinese Communist Party were exposed to the table. He has the ability to raise money, and the only one who can give money now is the CCP. The University of Adelaide transferred him to the presidency, and he will certainly go back to collude with the CCP in this position, and the CCP can once again carry out the same kind of infiltration as before. Australia’s academia is the hardest hit by Chinese Communist infiltration, and Australia has a long way to go in the fight against it.
Huang Fujing also called on the Australian government to conduct security checks and introduce restrictions on international students and scholars from China, as the British government has done. Recently the British media disclosed that the British government intends to restrict Chinese people from working and studying in 44 sensitive professions from Feb. 15.
On Monday, a petition was launched on the website “change.org” by a user from Adelaide with the screen name “Mark Underwood”, asking the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) and Liberal Senator James Paterson, the newly elected chairman of the Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security of the Australian Federal Parliament, to investigate Hoy’s ties to Beijing. Beijing’s ties.
The petition states that the many pro-Beijing incidents that have come to light show that Hoy has undermined Australian values; that Hoy’s crackdown on Anti-Communist student Pavlo is suppressing freedom of expression in Australia; that he has chosen the latter between national security and Chinese students; and that Hoy’s former position at the Confucius Institute, the Communist Party’s major foreign mission, increases the risk of Communist infiltration into Australia. risk of infiltration into Australia. The petition has already received dozens of signatures.
Hoy has been criticized by the media in the past, including in May last year, when Drew Pavlou, a University of Queensland student who stood in solidarity with the Hong Kong “anti-Send China” movement and Uighurs, was suspended for two years by the university for “violating the school’s code of conduct. He had previously named Hoy directly and criticized the University of Queensland for its close ties with the Chinese government;
In 2019, Hoy personally presented a visiting professorship to Xu Jie, the Chinese Communist Party’s Consul-General in Brisbane, at a Time when Australian universities were launching a protest movement in solidarity with Hong Kong’s “anti-Send China” movement.
In addition, Hoy has served as a senior advisor and board member of the global headquarters of the Confucius Institute in China. The University of Queensland receives funding from China for four courses on Chinese government, Music and language courses, including one on “China in a Changing World,” which covers the Communist Party’s enhanced role in addressing “security challenges” around the world.
Hoy’s latest appointment is at the University of Adelaide, one of Australia’s top eight universities. Catherine Branson, president emeritus of the University of Adelaide, described Hoy as “one of Australia’s most distinguished and respected university leaders”; vowed to lead the university in creating new opportunities for students, industry, government and the community, and said “a strong University of Adelaide is vital to the long-term interests of the nation.
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