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Tag: Confucius Institutes

Posted inUnited Kingdom

UK’s Truss likely to pick a fight with China

by Rana Mitter September 6, 2022September 12, 2022

On September 5, 2022, members of the United Kingdom’s Conservative Party chose the next prime minister. Liz Truss defeated her rival Rishi Sunak in a vote of 160,000 or so party members. For years, China was a near irrelevance in UK politics. That changed when a range of crises raised China’s profile in a highly […]

Posted inPakistan

Sharif flipping Pakistan’s US and China relations

by Salman Rafi Sheikh May 24, 2022May 27, 2022
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China has a suicide terror problem in Pakistan

by FM Shakil May 2, 2022May 6, 2022
Posted inAustralia

Australia-China: Forget wagging the dog, make a cat laugh

by Helen Clark November 24, 2021December 1, 2021
Posted inOpinion

Collectively countering China’s influence operations

by Taehwa Hong February 6, 2021February 5, 2021
Posted inAustralia

Australia limits state, university ties with China

by AT Contributor December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Wider connotations of Chinese ‘salami slicing’

by S K Chatterji October 22, 2020October 22, 2020
Posted inOpinion

Trump administration weaponizing academia

by Kenneth Hammond September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
Posted inChina Digest

US targets China’s Confucius Institutes

by AT Contributor August 14, 2020August 15, 2020
What would Confucius do? Photo: iStock
Posted inChina

Why Confucius rubs America the wrong way

by Moss Roberts September 17, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAustralia, Oceania

Australia, China hit money vs values breaking point

by Alan Boyd August 3, 2019February 18, 2020
China's President Xi Jinping and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Photo: AFP
Posted inChina, India, Israel, Middle East, South Asia, United States, World

Will Israel’s pivot to Asia affect ties with US?

by Ellen Laipson June 12, 2019February 18, 2020
China's Vice President Xi Jinping makes a speech before he opened Australia's first Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute, at the RMIT University in Melbourne on June 20, 2010.  The Confucius Institute will promote the study of Chinese culture and language with a focus on Chinese Medicine - one of the world's oldest and longest standing healthcare systems, tracing back more than 2,500 years.  Xi is on a five-day visit to Australia.  AFP PHOTO/William WEST / AFP PHOTO / WILLIAM WEST
Posted inAustralia, China

Do Confucius Institutes teach Chinese propaganda?

by Jeffrey Gil March 30, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inMiddle East, United Arab Emirates

Mideast needs its own version of British Council

by Jonathan Gornall March 21, 2019February 18, 2020
People wave Chinese and British flags at the departure of a freight train transporting containers from the UK on April 10, 2017, en route to Yiwu in China's Zhejiang province. Photo: AFP / Isabel Infantes
Posted inAustralia, China, Oceania, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

China’s soft and sharp power, and ‘information warfare’ 

by Joseph S. Nye January 8, 2018February 18, 2020
The University of Adelaide has a Confucius Institute program.
Posted inAustralia, China, Germany, India, Japan, Northeast Asia, Oceania, South Asia, Taiwan, World

Dragon in the room: who’s afraid of Confucius Institutes?

by Jeffrey Gil December 21, 2017

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