Time for Western Universities to Cut Their Ties to #CCP #China..

 
FOREIGN POLICY ILLUSTRATION

It’s time for Western universities to close their Confucius Institutes and end their academic cooperation with China. In the three decades following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, one of the ways China sought to rebuild its image abroad was by systematically forging partnerships with Western universities.

At first, these partnerships mainly focused on research collaboration. Later, they grew to include the Confucius Institutes for language education, generous funding for various joint projects, and the establishment of Western universities’ branch campuses in China.

Full Story: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/19/universities-confucius-institutes-china/

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