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CyberneticSaturn t1_iyu1sxq wrote

Reply to comment by pandabear62573 in NYC woman pummeled at Columbia University China COVID protest by NetQuarterLatte

Some of the Chinese school clubs got broken up at Columbia years back because the Chinese gov’t had effectively taken control of them and were using them to try to exert control on Chinese students.

It would not be surprising at all if it had to do with someone with a tangential government relationship, but I’d imagine if it’s true they went rogue in this case since it seems totally insane to draw more attention to the issue.

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spicytoastaficionado t1_iyvjvtq wrote

>Some of the Chinese school clubs got broken up at Columbia years back because the Chinese gov’t had effectively taken control of them and were using them to try to exert control on Chinese students.

Good on Columbia.

That is basically what Confucius Institutes have become on college campuses across the country

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PossibleOven t1_iyv1uj8 wrote

I remember reading a while back that those clubs exist at cuny schools as well.

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