In the morning, I attended a very interesting department seminar on the new paradigm in academic fraud. Instead of (or in addition to) falsification, fabrication, and plagiarism, this new paradigm involves more sophisticated ethical gray areas, such as self-citation, double affiliations, citation cartels, and so on.
In the afternoon, a colleague (who does not work in Chinese studies) asked me for advice. She had received an email from a Chinese scholar proposing a deal: in exchange for supporting his candidacy for one of the European academies that require the endorsement of an internal member (which she qualifies to provide), she would be invited by his institution to spend a few weeks in China—doing research or whatever.