The battle to keep China off European university campuses

Chinese institutes come under scrutiny as German publisher claims Xi Jinping is ‘sacrosanct and beyond discussion’

A student walks through Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
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German universities have been ordered to review their links with China after the country’s education minister warned of Beijing’s “high-level influence”.

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