“He had been tweeting for just 10 days, and had fewer than 10 followers.”
A St. Gallen doctoral student criticized the Chinese government on a Twitter account almost nobody read. His supervisor got angry emails from China and ended the supervision two days later, citing her own visa. The next day his university account was gone. St. Gallen has 15 cooperation agreements with China. Three years of research lost to protect one professor’s travel plans.