University founding in Hainan: stress te • Table.Briefings

Juergen Kretschmann, President of the planned Hainan-Bielefeld University, and University Chancellor Guan Naijia in front of a poster showing the building project on the Chinese tropical island of Hainan.

Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences is planning a German-Chinese university project on Hainan Island. The plans will put the recently presented China strategy to the test. In it, the German government called for tighter restrictions on academic cooperation.

The timing seems odd: Less than a week after the publication of the China Strategy, in which the German government sets stricter limits for scientific cooperation, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences (HSBI) has announced plans to found its own university on the Chinese tropical island of Hainan.

University founding in Hainan: stress test for Germany’s China strategy

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