In a U-turn decision, the UK government is no longer planning to close the country's 30 Confucius Institutes, instead moving to "remove all government funding from Confucius Institutes in the UK".
The Australian government has supported measures to prevent foreign interference on university campuses, but stopped short of cracking down further on controversial Confucius Institutes.
A Chinese student in the US has been arrested and charged after allegedly harassing another student who posted fliers supporting democracy in China.
UK PM Rishi Sunak is looking to close Confucius Institutes having vowed to do so during the Conservative party leadership campaign earlier this year.
UK Confucius Institutes are not a form of ‘soft power’, but "formally part" of the propaganda system of the Chinese Communist Party, a report has said.
Newly-installed UK prime minister Liz Truss is signalling a new direction for Chinese language in the UK, as talks are in the mix to replace Confucius Institutes with teachers from Taiwan.
In the midst of a white-hot race to find a new UK Prime Minister, former chancellor Rishi Sunak vowed he would move to close all 30 Confucius Institutes in the UK.
Despite the closures of all but 17 Confucius Institutes in the United States, republican lawmakers and conservatives are claiming that there is a ‘residual’ Chinese influence in US colleges.
