Just hours after attending a rally in support of Hong Kong’s freedoms, a student from mainland China studying in Australia received a message from a mainland classmate at 2 a.m. saying: “I’m watching you.” Zhang Xiuyang, a pseudonym used for safety, said she had known the classmate for a long time, was aware of their differing opinions, and had previously told him she did not want to discuss Hong Kong with him. In their latest report, ‘They Don’t Understand the Fear We Have,’ Human Rights Watch (HRW) revealed the failure of Australian universities to protect the academic freedom of students and academics who criticise the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “Personally, I felt really scared. I went to go see the uni [university] psychologist because I was so stressed. I blocked him [the classmate] on Facebook. I was in a course with 98 percent Mainland Chinese students. Students were bad-mouthing me. …