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By Willy Lam, East-Asia-Intel.com
President Xi Jinping has tightened ideological control over teachers, writers and intellectuals in the wake of the “Umbrella Revolution” in Hong Kong.
The General Office of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Central Committee issued a circular earlier this week affirming party leadership over the nation’s universities. The circular noted that the Party committees of colleges must ensure overall control over professors and students.
“We must uphold the principle of the party’s control over personnel,” the circular said. In language that is reminiscent of the Cultural Revolution, it added that the party committee should “provide leadership over ideological and political work within universities… so that the brains of teachers and students will be armed with the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.”
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