Ai Weiwei Accepts Job Offer in Berlin

Ai Weiwei has accepted a job to teach at the University of Berlin, but it’s unclear whether he'll be allowed out of China.
Ai Weiwei Accepts Job Offer in Berlin
Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrives to speak to reporters outside his studio in Beijing on June 23. Weiwei has accepted a job to teach at the University of Berlin, but it's unclear whether he'll be allowed out of China. Peter Parks/Getty Images
Matthew Robertson
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Outspoken Chinese artist Ai Weiwei arrives to speak to reporters outside his studio in Beijing on June 23. Weiwei has accepted a job to teach at the University of Berlin, but it's unclear whether he'll be allowed out of China. (Peter Parks/Getty Images)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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