{"id":1220451,"date":"2022-01-17T16:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T21:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1220451"},"modified":"2022-01-17T16:23:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T21:23:32","slug":"mandatory-mao-zedong-military-classes-at-uk-uni-course-collab-with-chinese-army-tied-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mandatory-mao-zedong-military-classes-at-uk-uni-course-collab-with-chinese-army-tied-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandatory Mao Zedong, Military Classes at UK Uni Course Collab with Chinese Army-Tied School"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin 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style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1178309620-e1642351871222-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Chinese university with links to the nation\u2019s army is jointly running a number of engineering courses in the UK involving mandatory modules on Mao Zedong and military training.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Mary University \u2014 which is part of the University of London \u2014 is working with the Chinese&nbsp;Northwestern Polytechnic University (NWPU) to provide courses that educate Chinese Students in engineering, military training and socialist ideology.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>NWPU has been described as being involved in the \u201cdevelopment of unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous underwater vehicles and missile proliferation projects\u201d by US authorities.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/uk-university-running-course-conjunction-chinese-institution\/\">report<\/a> by&nbsp;<em>The Telegraph<\/em>, the US Department of Commerce has also designated NWPU on its Entity List, banning US universities and companies from sharing certain technical information with the Chinese institution.<\/p>\n<p>NWPU <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191011015420\/http:\/cicav.nwpu.edu.cn\/info\/1204\/2623.htm\">reportedly<\/a> received over&nbsp;\u00a5420 million since its founding for its&nbsp;national defence science and technology key laboratory for unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Queen Mary University (QMU) is running a number of programs in conjunction with NWPU, including undergraduate degrees in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sems.qmul.ac.uk\/china\/msc\/material\/\">Material Science and Engineering<\/a>, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sems.qmul.ac.uk\/china\/undergraduate\/polymer\/\">Polymer Materials Science and Engineering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both courses are open <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sems.qmul.ac.uk\/china\/undergraduate\/\">only<\/a> to students who are Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the \u201cEducation Plan\u201d for the Material Science and Engineering course on the QMU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sems.qmul.ac.uk\/content\/china\/undergraduate\/materials\/files\/2020%E7%BA%A7%E5%9F%B9%E5%85%BB%E6%96%B9%E6%A1%88%EF%BC%88%E6%96%B0%EF%BC%89v4--2020Sep--both%20bilingual.pdf\">website<\/a>, students will partake in courses surrounding mathematics, as well as on the behaviour and properties of materials.<\/p>\n<p>Students enrolled on the course, however, will also be required to take a number of classes on \u201cideological and political theory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These modules include the likes of \u201cMarxism General Principle\u201d, \u201cFundamental of Mao Ze Dong Thoughts\u201d, and \u201cEthics and Fundamentals of Law\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Also included within the Engineering degree are mandatory modules on \u201cMilitary Theory\u201d and \u201cMilitary Training\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Commie Cash: Cambridge University \u2018Infiltrated\u2019 by Chinese Tech Giant Huawei <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vkwgJPxJrk\">https:\/\/t.co\/vkwgJPxJrk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1437758025780142080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking on the matter,&nbsp;Isabel Sawkins, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2022\/01\/15\/uk-university-running-course-conjunction-chinese-institution\/\">expressed<\/a> shock over the collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing for a university to risk inadvertently sharing technology with very high-risk foreign institutions but to mandate that pupils studying for material sciences degrees take modules on Communist Ideology and Military Theory is an outrage that administrators must have been aware of,\u201d Sawkins said, according to <em>The Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is shocking that Queen Mary, which is obligated to promote academic freedom, allowed this to happen and it must now urgently investigate this matter,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sawkins is far from the first person to have taken notice of the growing links between universities in the UK and China.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/02\/08\/british-universities-investigation-chinese-communist-party-report\/\">Over a dozen<\/a> universities in the UK were under investigation by the security services over their relationships with the Chinese Communist Party according to a report published early last year.<\/p>\n<p>The investigations had to do with what was described as a \u201cnew gold rush\u201d of Chinese money entering the institutions.<\/p>\n<p>At least&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/06\/11\/hostages-for-beijing-uk-universities-took-40m-from-chinese-communist-tied-companies\/\">\u00a340 million<\/a> has been dumped into UK universities by Chinese companies linked with the CCP since 2015, according to the Conservative party&nbsp;China Research Group, with Cambridge in particular having been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/14\/cambridge-university-infiltrated-by-chinese-tech-giant-huawei\/\">accused<\/a> of being \u201cinfiltrated\u201d by tech giant&nbsp;Huawei, which is headquartered in Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>The company had been previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/07\/14\/uk-bans-new-huawei-5g-equipment-from-2021-full-ban-from-5g-by-2027\/\">banned<\/a> from working on the UK 5g network over fears related to the nation\u2019s national security and economy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/06\/exclusive-top-tory-says-invest-in-british-workers-instead-of-relying-on-cheap-chinese-products\/\">Speaking<\/a> to Breitbart London in October former Conservative Party leader&nbsp;Iain Duncan Smith said that UK universities were in danger of being \u201cnaive\u201d when it came to Chinese money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the Chinese have targetted British Universities because they\u2019re so heavily involved in technological development including some military and secure stuff,\u201d Duncan Smith said. \u201d There\u2019s no question that universities in the UK \u2014 I think \u2014 have become overdependent on Chinese money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Tory head also criticised China\u2019s&nbsp;system of Confucius Institutes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re very much there as an organ of the state,\u201d he said, also claiming that they \u201cseem to spend an awful lot of time following Chinese students and reporting back\u201d to China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exclusive: Top Tory Says Invest in British Workers Instead of Relying on \u2018Cheap\u2019 Chinese Products <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z8mqg8Z4zm\">https:\/\/t.co\/z8mqg8Z4zm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1445703127953465368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese university with links to the nation\u2019s army is jointly 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