Experts Raise Security Concerns About Joint UK–China Research Program

‘Education has become a matter of national security,’ one expert said.

Women walk on a promenade next to the Jinji Lake in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, on April 12, 2021. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

A campus that is a joint venture between the UK’s University of Liverpool and a major Chinese technical school intertwined with the communist regime’s military has come under recent scrutiny for expanding collaboration with Russia and technical partnerships with China more broadly.

In November 2024, the Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University (XJTLU), located in Suzhou in eastern China, opened its Centre for China–Russia Humanitarian Cooperation and Development.