Thursday, July 2, 2020

Lee Kuan Yew warned in '59 about the danger of China controlled universities becoming symbols of Chinese dominance: Lessons from the region ignored in granting Zhu Minshen that license to operate his "very unique" Australian law school


by Ganesh Sahathevan


                          Ambassador Cheng Jingye Pays an Official Visit to the State of New 
                          South Wales   (2016/08/16)


In a speech delivered in October 1959 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew warned that the China funded Nanyang University must not "symbolise an outpost in (South East Asia) of Chinese dominance".

In time Lee ensured that Nanyang was merged into Singapore University to form the National University Of Singapore.  China was never allowed to fund another university or school in Singapore. Malaysia also enforced a similar policy for the same reasons, until  recently, when former prime minister Najib Razak reversed long standing policy.

Lee warned that a resurgent China was "becoming an object of apprehension among the peoples of South East Asia", and could immediately see that China would use universities  and other educational institutions to assert dominance by influencing local Chinese populations.

In Australia on the other hand an in particular the State of New South Wales, these lessons have been forgotten, particularly  in the matter of the CCP linked Zhu Minshen and his "very unique" Australian  law school.

The danger of CCP infiltration via the legal system has been ignored despite Australian troops fighting China backed communist terrorists in Malaysia during the 1948-1960 Emergency, and despite ASIO and ASIS' work with Malaysian and Singaporean intelligence over s period of more than 50 years.

In fact, it does appear as if the regulator, the NSW Legal Profession Admission Board, which is chaired by the Chief Justice Of NSW Tom Bathurst, cared less even for  Zhu's defiance of the law, and his involvement in a local political donation scandal,  when it decided to issue and then renew Zhu licence to operate his "very unique" law school, the Sydney City School Of Law, which is owned via Zhu's Top Education Group.



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My law school is also very unique: Zhu Minshen happy to brag about what NSW LPAB ,chaired by NSW Chief Justice Bathurst prefer be kept quiet ;  Bathurst has placed himself at the centre of a security issue , must stand down immediately and allow investigation by ASIO, AFP. 

Ganesh Sahathevan




As Chief Justice Tom Bathurst has been intent on pursuing a social 
and political agenda. In doing so he has walked into a matter
of national security


The decision of the New South Wales Legal Profession Admission Board (NSW LPAB) to grant Zhu Minshen and his Top Education Group Ltd their  "one and only" license to award law degrees continues to draw attention even if the NSW LPAB would rather the matter be kept quiet. As reported by  this writer, a recent decision of the Commonwealth Attorney General Christian Porter has implications for the NSW LPAB, and its chairman , the Chief Justice Of NSW Tom Bathurst: 




Zhu's Communist Party China links are a matter of public record and have been well documented by academic Geoff Wade . The documents he has provided show that  the NSW LPAB and  Chief Justice Bathurst in making an exception in the case of Zhu and his Top Group,  granted a member of the Communist Party China establishment the right to produce  the next generation of Australia's judicial officers (Lawyers admitted to practise law in Australia are officers of the court to which they are admitted



While the NSW LPAB has avoided saying much( if anything at all)about Zhu and Top Group despite a legal requirement to do so in its annual reports,  Zhu himself has been happy to advertise the special treatment accorded him by NSW LPAB, the Law Council Australia, and Chief Justice Bathurst. As he put it while speaking to investors in China: 



The NSW LPAB and its Chairman ,Chief Justice Tom Bathurst, with the apparent backing of the Law Council Australia  , have placed themselves at the centre of a matter of national security. The matter needs to be fully investigated by ASIO and the AFP, among others, and that can only be done properly if the Chief Justice steps down immediately. 


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