Pro-China nationalists are using intimidation to silence critics. Can they be countered without stifling free speech?

Last month, the University of New South Wales came under harsh criticism after its media team deleted an article and tweet in which Elaine Pearson, the Australia director of Human Rights Watch, expressed concern over China’s curtailment of human rights in Hong Kong. The tweet enraged some in the Chinese student community in Australia, who organised an aggressive campaign targeting UNSW’s social media channels. Pearson later said, the incident shook her: “The pro-Chinese Communist Party…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3102460/pro-china-nationalists-are-using-intimidation-silence-critics