China interferes in New Zealand Univeristy Event

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China’s ‘request’ to shut down AUT event could have been an order – academic

China may have requested a Tiananmen Square commemoration to be held at AUT was cancelled, but that could have easily become an order. AUT cancelled the event’s room booking in late May, citing the fact the university would actually be closed the day it was planned, and it was instead held at an Auckland Council venue, Newsroom reports. But the cancellation only happened after Chinese diplomats became involved, which is ringing alarm bells for Otago University politics Professor Robert Patman. “I think it’s a request but it could be [an] order given the fact that China in the past has not been above withdrawing students from institutions where those institutions incur their displeasure,” he told The AM Show.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2019/07/china-s-request-to-shut-down-aut-event-could-have-been-an-order-academic.html

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