
Should Britain's Confucius Institutes be shut down?
Chinese Whispers
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Is China Interfering in Our Universities?
Politicians instinctively are also attracted to headlines and CIs provide a good headline because people have heard of them. The kind of problem that you're identifying is much harder to fit into a headline. But I do want to delve a bit deeper into that because I hope that politicians who are interested in China are listening to this. What kind of breakdown of the issues can we give them? Which is that just firstly on humanity's point, what are the concerns that China might be interfering in our universities there? Well, I mean, if I talk about science and technology, because I'd identify that as the major threat. And they are very deliberately looking at these technologies and trying to create dependencies
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