A college affiliated with the University of Waterloo confirms its contract with China’s Confucius Institute (CI) ended last year—joining the ranks of other institutions in North America and around the world that are cutting ties with the Beijing-led program.
A spokesperson for Renison University College said in an emailed statement on Nov. 18 that there has been no activity between his institution and CI “since before the beginning of the pandemic.”
“Renison’s Agreement with the CI, represented by Shanghai Studies International University [SSIU], expired in October 2021, and is not being renewed,” Cort Egan told The Epoch Times.
The college, which specializes in language and culture studies, said the work it had done with CI centred around adult and community education, and “not our degree programming.”…