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How China Is Influencing American Higher Ed

It's far beyond Confucius institutes

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Ben Domenech
May 02, 2023
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Peter Wood.

A “Chinese puzzle” in its classic version is a game where you must fit a variety of ill-assorted boxes inside other boxes. The term came to mean any intricate problem, especially one in which what looks like the way forward leads only to new obstacles.  

These days, in which we are warned not to use ethnonyms for fear of giving offense, it mig…

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