After disappearing for more than three years, former NTU professor and self-professed freedom fighter Cherian George suddenly emerged in SCMP (South China Morning Post), with a column piece warning readers about how the PAP have used their dominance over the media to keep its firm grip on power for the last 50 odd years.
Ironic as it may seem, Cherian George’s column piece was published in a Hong Kong based press company owned by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma, who is now at the beck and call of Xi Jinping and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party).
Since 2014, Cherian George has been employed as a Professor of Journalism at the Hong Kong Bapist University. Speaking to SCMP reporters in 2014 about accepting his new job, Cherian George once said:
“I’m impressed by how Hong Kong academics, students and the public have succeeded in vigorously, defending academic freedom…”
But what’s hypocritical about Cherian George, is that he has not said a single world publicly about the protests in Hong Kong against the Chinese government’s proposed extradition law, or the passing of the new national security law in Hong Kong, which basically allows the CCP to crush all instances of freedom of speech in the city he now calls home.
It would seem that Cherian George is being smart about keeping quiet, as he is well aware of the consequences of speaking critically against China in Hong Kong. After all, Cherian’s George’s wife Zuraidah Ibrahim, a former Deputy Editor at Straits Times, who left abruptly, has been working at SCMP since 2015. He would certainly not want to jeopardize his wife’s career as well as his own.
However, Cherian George has enjoyed making baseless and sometimes illogical attacks at Singapore, as he is well aware that nothing is going to happen to him. Unlike what will likely happen to him in Hong Kong, if he decides to speak up against China.
And as if writing articles to attack Singapore wasn’t enough, Cherian George has decided to provide SPH (Singapore Press Holdings) with some advice on how they should be restructured and financed, in a Facebook post.
To recap, last year, Cherian George wrote a 10 page complaint letter to KPMG about the company’s employee Yap Kwong Weng, all because Yap had a disagreement with him in a Facebook post regarding POFMA.
After all this, how people can still take Cherian George seriously, is certainly beyond human understanding, as it evidently requires a person to abandon all common sense and logic.
References: Critical Spectator
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