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The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) appointment of two mainland Chinese scholars as vice presidents of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) sparked widespread protests. The governing council of HKU confirmed the appointment of Max Shen Zuojun and Gong Peng as vice presidents. Max Shen was previously listed as a member of a CCP committee at ...
Three U.S. Congress members have sent letters to six American universities asking them to provide records of donations that they have accepted from foreign countries. The letters were signed by James Comer from the Oversight and Reform committee, Virginia Foxx from the Education and Labor Committee, and Jim Jordan from the Judiciary committee. The letters ...
The government of Australia has started looking deeply at the relationship between Australian universities and Confucius Institutes. Many of the universities have apparently entered into an agreement under which Beijing has the primary authority over many aspects of teaching. Confucius Institutes under Chinese control The contracts have been signed between the universities and Hanban, an ...