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Remember that joke that #CCP supporters love sending their assets and their kids to enemy countries? Well case in point! Why scramble to get into #American universities? Stay in Beijing U or Tsing Hua!
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#education #student #studentvisa #visa #meme #penguin #china
Universities hire planes to fly in China students

Britain’s top universities are chartering flights to get Chinese students to the UK next month amid fears that global travel restrictions could cost hundreds of millions of pounds in overseas fees.

The universities are worried that their income from overseas students — which is more than £1 billion, partly because of the premium on domestic fees the institutions are able to charge — could be undermined by travel problems.

More than 50 UK universities — including many of the elite Russell Group of 24 leading institutions such as Imperial College London, Bristol and Exeter — have already chartered four flights to bring in 1,200 Chinese students in time to start their degrees next month.

Source: The Times #Aug29

 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/universities-hire-planes-to-fly-in-china-students-gfq2cc9j0

#China #Britain #University #Student
China Makes Sure Everyone Writes Taiwan’s Name Just So—Even a Colorado High School

Trying to give some students a taste of foreign affairs, Colorado’s Regis Jesuit High School applied for credentials to attend the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.

This spring, the U.N. committee that accredits such groups emailed the school. It said there was a hiccup: Regis Jesuit’s website used incorrect terminology for Taiwan, the democratically governed island. The committee suggested modifying it to “Taiwan, Province of China.”

Source: WSJ #Sep10

https://www.wsj.com/articles/china-makes-sure-everyone-writes-taiwans-name-just-soeven-a-colorado-high-school-11631304386

#UN #China #Taiwan #Student
A Chinese student in Canada had two followers on Twitter. He still didn’t escape Beijing’s threats over online activity

In “China Unbound: A New World Disorder,” Toronto Star reporter Joanna Chiu examines China’s growing influence around the world, including in western countries, and its surveillance and human rights abuses that increasingly extend beyond its borders.

Dear Joanna Chiu,
I am (Dan). I am from China. I just graduated from (a Quebec university). I hesitated for a whole night before deciding to write this email …

Source: The Star #Sep18

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/09/18/a-chinese-student-in-canada-had-two-followers-on-twitter-he-still-didnt-escape-beijings-threats-over-online-activity.html

#Chinese #Student #Canada #Twitter #Beijing
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A university #Student posted a video that went viral in #China revealing that he found what appears to be a #rat’s head in his meal. The authorities claimed that it was a duck’s neck, and told the student not to discuss it anymore.

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