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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

Dutch university gives up Chinese funding due to impartiality concerns

A facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained in Xinjiang
A facility near what is believed to be a re-education camp where mostly Muslim ethnic minorities are detained in Xinjiang. CCHRC academics concluded in 2020 that there was no discrimination against Uyghurs. Photograph: Greg Baker/AFP/Getty Images

A decision by a leading Dutch university to refuse all further Chinese funding for a controversial study centre has sparked fresh concern about Beijing’s apparent attempts to influence debate at European educational institutions.

Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit (VU), the fourth largest university in the Netherlands, has said it will accept no further money from the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and repay sums it recently received.

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