It is the gold standard now, that Trump, according to American universities, and even our pathetic ones in Australia, is a dictator. Yet these universities are not only silent about the ultra-authoritarianism of China, the universities celebrate it. They do so because they court Chinese money, in the form of students, who will become migrants to the West, moving into the elite power structure, and ultimately cementing power for mother China:
https://www.digitalprintaustralia.com/bookstore/non-fiction/politics-philosophy/the-howard-legacy.html
Then there is the money universities borrow for their little building projects, most of which comes from China. The great irony in this form of colonialism is that the free speech that the academics and socialist cub students trade on to do as they do, does not exist in China. They would never get away with an attack on the Chinese nation as they do nations of the West in China, and I admire China for its strength in controlling the cancer of nation-eroding political correctness. However, while not being “anti-Chinese,” this does not mean that we should be oblivious to the China threat. I have written before about a brilliant book by Clive Hamilton, Silent Invasion: China’s Influence in Australia, (Hardie Grant Books, Richmond, 2018), a book which has some trouble seeing the light of day. Probably, the university presses would not touch it.