Experts call for education alert over Australia amid mounting racist attacks
Xu Keyue Published: Feb 04, 2021 10:10 PM
The dining zone of the Sydney Opera House Photo: Xinhua With rising reports of racist attacks against Chinese students in Australia, education insiders advised students to choose their study destinations with caution and urged Chinese education authorities to issue an alert for safety risks.
The Global Times learned from materials provided by the China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE), a non-profit organization, that there have been more reports of Chinese students being abused and beaten in Australia, apparently due to race.
There were such reports on three consecutive days in January. A female Chinese student was insulted and beaten in the head by a group of six people in Sydney on January 12. A master s degree student surnamed Wu at Monash University was beaten by a white man after shopping near the campus and had the cartilage in his
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