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MELBOURNE - AUSTRALIA : It was a routine quiz in a university business class in Australia, but the answers to one of the questions was a surprise:

Chinese officials are truthful only when they are careless or drunk.

Gao Song, a student from China at Monash University in Melbourne, was so upset that he condemned it on online.

His post created a stir back in China, where it was quoted in the news media. The Chinese Consulate in Melbourne contacted him requesting regular updates.

Global Times, an influential state run newspaper in China, asked him to write an article about the incident.

*Under pressure, the university judged the question to be inappropriate, and it suspended the professor.*

As China is becoming more and more powerful, we have a strong backing even when we are overseas,'' said Mr. Gan, 24. ''When others find fault with China, we can stand up to them and tell them we Chinese are great.''

Like their counterparts in the United States, Australia's universities have opened their doors to well--heeled Chinese students as a source of much needed tuition revenue.

But as the number of Chinese students have grown, so has the willingness of some like Mr. Gao  to speak out against what they see as slights against China, and to push back at offending classes and instructors.

Professors have been singled out by name and covertly videotaped. Some have been disciplined by their universities. 

One professor was forced to apologize after the internet interrupted with criticism over a map that he had used in a class 18 months earlier.

In many cases, professors say they feel the pressure more subtly.

Kevin Carrico, an American lecturer in Chinese studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, said he faced an icy silence in a recent class when he mentioned the lack of individual rights during the Qin dynasty, 2,200 years ago.

The students, who mostly came from mainland China, at first refused to say a word. then two spoke up to insist that human rights were irrelevant to the discussion.

''It made me feel like I was teaching an awkward anatomy class, or some thing like that,'' said Dr. Carrico, who previously taught at Stanford. ''But really we were just talking about politics.''

The challenge, educators and other experts say, is balancing professors' academic freedoms with the  need to avoid offending the Chinese students, while also giving them the right to voice their views.

Universities have struggled to figure out which students simply lack experience with Western ideas  of critical debate;-

Which are correct in demanding more sensitivity; and which are being manipulated by the Chinese government or Communist Party, or acting out of fear of Chinese censorship that is being exported as the nation exerts its softpower overseas.

Much of the students' prickly Nationalism gets vented on social media, often anonymously, and then snowballs as it is picked up by news sites and and internet users in China.

As the case of Mr. Gao, much of this appears to start as the authentic outrage of Chinese students, sometimes based on genuine grievances.

But in some cases, it appears to get support from Chinese diplomats and the state-run news media, who amplify the students' voices and reach out to students leaders. 

Mr. Gao, for instance, said he now is invited regularly to events at the Chinese consulate, which asks him for reports on what is happening to Chinese students on campus. [An official at the consulate declined to comment].

Such attention from the authorities can also pressure Chinese students to self-censor for fear that they are being watched, even while abroad.

According to Human Rights Watch, which is completing a two-year investigation into China's impact on the world's universities, pressure from the Chinese government is undermining-

Academic freedom not only in Australia but also in the United States and Europe.

''I first went to China to study myself in the fall of 1989,'' said sophie Richardson, the China's director of Human Rights Watch.

''Twenty-five years later, it's much easier for mainland students to go to Australia or the U.S. and study, and yet they are in some ways and in some cases-

As restricted or as surveilled as they would be if they had stayed at home. That, to me, is not the right direction for us to be going.''

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