Restricting academic ties with China is a 'huge, huge mistake' warns Brown University president
Restricting Academic Ties With China Is a 'Huge, Huge Mistake' Warns Ivy League College President
“The message that we’ve been signaling out to the world is ‘don’t come’—especially if you’re from China—and I think that’s a huge, huge mistake,” Paxson said in an interview with Bloomberg News journalists on Wednesday. She said she had “several concerns” about how the course of U.S.-China ties “can potentially adversely impact the advancement of science in this country and also economic development of this country.
Harvard University’s onetime chair of its chemistry department, Charles Lieber, was convicted last year of lying to federal officials about his business dealings with China’s Wuhan University of Technology. More broadly, the U.S. has seen a slide in the number of Chinese students on its campuses. At the same time, “we believe strongly in academic freedom and openness and exchange of knowledge,” the Brown president said. “And we don’t want to do anything that makes people afraid to collaborate with somebody on a great project at another university—that makes them feel like they can’t do the work, the best work that they want to do.”Amid heightened political tensions and Covid travel restrictions, the number of Chinese students attending U.S.
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