Published: October 31st, 2023,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

German Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger has once again called for vigilance in scientific cooperation with China. „The Communist Party could be hiding behind every Chinese researcher, we have to be clear about that,“ the liberal politician told the German newspaper „Die Welt.“ For this reason, she stated, it is necessary to review existing cooperative relationships, including those of universities, especially with scholarship holders of the state-run China Scholarship Council.