Maybe blocking Wikipedia is not so bad after all…

Chinese universities are teaching, encouraging and even sponsoring plagiarism at all levels. From “open” schools to top level universities students are literally being asked to “just copy it off the internet.” I have personal experience with two Chinese universities and a March 19th article from Reuters in Beijing about a sacked professor shows that my personal experience is not unique—in fact it’s the national standard.There are a number of reasons for this ranging from graft to laziness to political pressure to perform. I’ve seen and heard, first hand, professors tell students that are working on papers, (even thesis and dissertations) to “find something that’s already done. [I] don’t want to have to correct all your English mistakes.” And “It’s too much work to write it all by yourself. You don’t have time to do it.”From the Reuters Article: “Universities have become an officialdom… The over-intervention and manipulation of academia by power definitely fetters its growth,” Zhang was quoted as saying. “How is China’s academia doing now? Does anybody overseas read paper written by Chinese scholars? Plagiarism and theft are rampant… Obedient kids are being taught to be minions.”Interestingly, when Chinese students write their own text (in Chinese) and then use online translators (like Google) teachers typically can spot the poor translations and I've heard teachers tell students to find source materials to copy in English instead.If China’s best and brightest are being taught to plagiarize how much better is the rest of Chinese society going to be at protecting international IP?!You're IP protection is in your own hands. You've been warned.