Students from at least 174 colleges and universities across six continents have erected encampments in solidarity with Palestine. Their movement has sprouted over the past few weeks, as many administrators have rejected student...
In Peter Hessler’s latest piece for The New Yorker, “How Chinese Students Experience America,” he notes that “COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred...
As part of a broader push to boost and defend the Winter Olympics’ global public image, Chinese diplomats and state media outlets have been fighting back on Twitter against criticism of food in the “closed loop” bubble. The fare...
Life in Chinese academia is hard. Scholars are subject to twin pressures: politics and performance. Two recent cases—a professor’s lawsuit against Tsinghua University over wrongful dismissal connected to politically sensitive...
The following article by Filip Jirouš was originally published by Project Sinopsis. The first systematic survey of Czech academic ties with PRC defense-linked universities, by Sinopsis and Czech Radio, has identified dozens of...
A recent National Endowment for Democracy report by the Hoover Institute’s Glenn Tiffert, titled “Compromising the Knowledge Economy: Authoritarian Challenges to Independent Intellectual Inquiry,” examines the...
Western institutions’ AI and surveillance research ties with China, particularly those with partners implicated in ongoing rights abuses in Xinjiang, have been coming under mounting scrutiny. This week, South China Morning...
A comprehensive new report from Scholars at Risk looks at various facets of academic censorship and control in China, and around the world at the Chinese government’s behest. The report examines threats to scholars and...
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Fergus Hunter reports that four Australian universities hosting...
Yesterday, Human Rights Watch published a 12-point Code of Conduct for institutes of higher...
Amid rising concerns of curtailed academic freedoms, U.S. universities are increasingly closing...
As the U.S. and China vie for technological superiority in fields like quantum physics, autonomous...
Financial Times’ Emily Feng reports that the University of Nottingham Ningbo—the first Sino-UK...
The Netherlands’ Groningen University has canceled plans to set up a satellite campus in...
In recent years, educational exchanges between China and western countries, notably the United...
A group of top Chinese universities have established departments to oversee the “ideological...
CDT cartoonist Badiucao offers his commentary on the controversy over remarks made at the...
In recent years, China’s Confucius Institutes–a program under the Ministry of...
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