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China-backed Confucius Institutes face closure under veto laws


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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.
At least one centre - RMIT University’s Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute - will close this year, with the university saying it would cease operations due to budget pressures caused by COVID-19.
China’s then Vice-President Xi Jinping and then RMIT Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Gardner officially open RMIT’s Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute in 2010.
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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. ....

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