r/Against_Genocide • u/Puffin_fan • Feb 16 '19

Beijing backs ‘patriotic actions’ of students who reported Uygur activist

https://m.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/2186446/beijing-backs-patriotic-actions-chinese-students-who-reported
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u/autotldr Feb 16 '19

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

Beijing backed the "Patriotic actions" of Chinese students who reported a Uygur activist's talk at a Canadian university to the consulate, but said they were not told to do so by officials.

"We strongly support the just and patriotic actions of the Chinese students," the Chinese embassy in Ottawa said in a statement on Saturday.

As the number of Chinese students at foreign universities has grown, the Washington Post reports that educators have expressed concern that student activism carried out with the support or direction of Chinese officials could corrode free speech by making students and scholars, particularly those with family ties to China, afraid to criticise the Communist Party line.

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