Britain’s elite Cambridge University will rebrand its China Centre following revelations it had trained senior members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to become better authoritarian leaders.
The centre was set up in 2016 at Jesus College Cambridge and was reviewed by a panel of the college’s academics following a slew of media exposes about worryingly close ties with the CCP.
The China Centre will no longer receive funding from the Cambridge China Development Trust—set up by Professor Peter Nolan—and will be renamed the China Forum to restore its reputation and confidence.
The review said the China Centre should follow the college’s principles of “academic freedom” and that this must be clearly stated on the centre’s website….