The University of Chicago has suspended negotiations to keep open its Confucius Institute, according to a statement on the university’s website. The sudden change is due to comments by Xu Lin, chief executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters, in a Chinese newspaper. The university deemed the comments “incompatible with a continued equal partnership.”
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