News Analysis Chinese affiliates of British schools are not upholding values such as democracy and human rights. They likely influence British classrooms more than the opposite. With the world’s attention riveted on China’s recent hypersonic missile test, a less dramatic but perhaps more consequential shift toward Beijing’s power is flying under the public’s radar. In an article appearing in the Times of London titled, “Top English private schools put Chinese communists on boards,” investigative journalists Jacob Dirnhuber and Ben Ellery detailed the shocking extent to which individuals and organizations with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) have infiltrated the world’s most elite schools, on the back of tens of million of dollars paid or loaned in licensing fees. Elite primary and secondary schools attract pupils from around the world and include its wealthiest and most politically-influential families, which network and engage in business throughout the educational experience, producing friendships …