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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Universities that closed their Confucius Institutes:

  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Queensland (UQ)
  • University of New South Wales (UNSW)
  • University of Western Australia (UWA)
  • Adelaide University (probably)
  • RMIT

Universities that still have a Confucius Institute:

  • University of Newcastle
  • University of Sydney
  • Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
  • Griffith University
  • La Trobe University
  • Victoria University
  • Charles Darwin University (probably)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Damn I’m at VU, might shoot them an email.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

the thing is CI is more strident in misusing influence in the big more prestigious unis and in history and politics subjects, they try hard to influence the dialogue and narrative

at the smaller unis it's just using soft power on the locals and keeping tabs on Chinese nationals