The University of Chicago has suspended negotiations to keep open its Confucius Institute, according to
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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.”
Earlier this year a group of faculty members signed a petition asking the university to terminate its contract with Hanban, a government body in China that oversees the institutes, over concerns about academic freedom. The institutes are used to teach Chinese language and culture, and are financed by the Chinese government.
