China Backs Yale Stance on Foreign Students, Rips U.S. Actions
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China said it was “very regrettable” that the U.S. and some American institutions have imposed restrictions on humanities exchanges, after Yale University’s president pledged support for international students amid growing tensions between the two countries.
Personnel and cultural exchange “should not be politicized and interfered with,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said at a briefing in Beijing on Monday. “This is inconsistent with the aspirations of the two peoples and has caused widespread concern among the academic circles of China and the United States and all sectors of society.”