Some Cambridge academics object to Chinese gift

A number of Cambridge lecturers object to the substantial gift from the Chong Hua Foundation, which is set to create a chair of Chinese development at a new Centre of Development Studies, write Alex Spillius, Peter Foster and Malcolm Moore in Shanghai for The Telegraph.

The post would be occupied by Professor Peter Nolan, who has links to the family of Wen Jiabao, the Chinese premier. The donation comes in the wake of the Woolf report on the £1.5 million (US$2.3 million) donation to the London School of Economics by a foundation run by Colonel Gaddafi's son Saif al-Islam, which placed foreign contributions to cash-strapped British universities under extra scrutiny.

Tarak Barkawi, a senior lecturer in war studies at the department of politics and international studies, where the new post is due to be created, said that "in the wake of the Libya LSE fiasco", Cambridge's conduct was "reckless and simply not good enough".
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