Germany’s new China strategy has outlined plans to withhold federal support from research projects where there is a risk of “knowledge drain” to China, as well as promising to make German academics better aware of the security risks of cooperation.
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There are Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes at several German universities. The universities should "critically question" the cooperation, the federal government demands. "Clear limits" must be set for China's "direct influence" on science and teaching, a minister says. German security authorities warn of increasing economic and scientific espionage by China. The institutes served the Chinese Communist Party in particular to spread a "flawless image of China," a ministry spokeswoman told Handelsblatt. The German Rectors' Conference confirmed attempts by the institutes, for example in Hanover and Duisburg-Essen.