Exclusive: Australian universities face having their controversial Confucius Institutes shut down within months | LisaVisentin
Australian universities face having their controversial Confucius Institutes shut down within months, with the University of Sydney among the first to submit contracts for scrutiny under the Commonwealth’s foreign veto scheme.
China’s Vice-President Xi Jinping and then RMIT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner officially open RMIT’s Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute in 2010.The institutes, which are hosted by 13 Australian universities in partnership with Chinese universities, have come under scrutiny from the federal government amid concerns they function as a plank of the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda effort.
A spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said Senator Payne would decide whether to cancel the institute contracts on a “case-by-case basis”, but all 13 Australian universities were expected to register the contracts for review by the June 10 deadline. China’s Vice President Mr Xi Jinping officially opens RMIT’S Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute on June 20, 2010, at its Bundoora Campus in Victoria.At least four – the University of Sydney, Victoria University, University of Queensland, and the University of WA – have already lodged their contracts with the department for review.
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