Malaysia is reportedly shutting down Balaji Srinivasan’s Network School

据报道，马来西亚正在关闭巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑的“网络学校”

The Malaysian government has ordered the shutdown of a startup-centric community called the Network School, according to The Wall Street Journal. 据《华尔街日报》报道，马来西亚政府已下令关闭一个名为“网络学校”（Network School）的初创企业中心社区。

Billing itself as “a frontier community for techno-optimists,” the Network School reportedly grew out of entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan’s conviction that the United States is in irreversible decline; Srinivasan has said his goal is “to start a new country.” “网络学校”自称为“技术乐观主义者的前沿社区”，据报道，该项目源于企业家兼投资者巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑（Balaji Srinivasan）的信念，即美国正处于不可逆转的衰落之中；斯里尼瓦桑曾表示，他的目标是“建立一个新国家”。

So the Network School is supposed to represent the first step in a seven-stage plan (outlined in Srinivasan’s book “The Network State”) for building a new society. 因此，“网络学校”被视为实现建立新社会这一七阶段计划（详见斯里尼瓦桑的著作《网络国家》）的第一步。

Based in an abandoned Malaysian hotel, the WSJ described the program as “part tech incubator, part self-improvement retreat.” Attendees, however, complained about moldy rooms, as well as a dearth of women and nightlife. 该项目位于马来西亚一家废弃的酒店内，《华尔街日报》将其描述为“兼具科技孵化器和自我提升静修营”的性质。然而，参与者抱怨房间发霉，且缺乏女性参与者和夜生活。

After receiving questions from the WSJ, Srinivasan – who apparently renounced his American citizenship in 2023 — published a lengthy post on X declaring himself “a proud Singaporean” and complaining that the WSJ was working on a “hit piece” that would make him look like “an odd duck […] as opposed to an early adopter.” 在收到《华尔街日报》的质询后，斯里尼瓦桑（他显然已于2023年放弃了美国国籍）在X上发布了一篇长文，宣称自己是“一名自豪的新加坡人”，并抱怨《华尔街日报》正在撰写一篇“抹黑文章”，试图将他描绘成“一个怪人……而不是一个早期采用者”。

And although the current Malaysian campus will reportedly need to shut down due to licensing issues, Srinivasan recently announced a new agreement for a campus in Kazakhstan. 尽管据报道，目前的马来西亚校区因许可问题需要关闭，但斯里尼瓦桑最近宣布已达成一项在哈萨克斯坦建立新校区的协议。