According to information from the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK), several German universities are considering refusing to accept young Chinese academics with a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC). These are government scholarships awarded by the Chinese Ministry of Education. „There are currently concrete considerations at other universities to exclude CSC scholarship holders, at least in certain fields,“ HRK press spokesperson Christoph Hilgert told Table.Media. He added that there is an ongoing discussion and that awareness was being raised, which the HRK was actively supporting within the framework of its exchange formats on issues of academic cooperation.