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comment by NikolaiFyodorov
NikolaiFyodorov  ·  1089 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Even on U.S. Campuses, China Cracks Down on Students Who Speak Out

This is a big deal in Australia. Our third largest export, at least before the pandemic, was education, and by far the biggest proportion of that export income was coming from Chinese university students. One does not need to look hard to find anxiety in the academic community about the unspoken pressure to ensure curricula does not trigger the Chinese student cohort. A teacher friend of mine was instructed to remove a quote by the Dalai Lama from a presentation on ethics.

And then there's this.