Post-Secondary Institutions in the West Should Never Bend to Pressure From Beijing

Universities should not stop professors from publishing work deemed unflattering by the Chinese communist regime.

A perimeter fence around what is officially known as a vocational skills education center in Dabancheng, in the Xinjiang Uyghur region of China, on Sept. 4, 2018. Thomas Peter/Reuters

Commentary

If there is one thing that we in the West can be generally proud of it is our education systems. Sure, there are problems with class size at the elementary levels, lack of focus on marketable skills training in high schools, and an embarrassing left-wing dominance in universities, but overall more—and better—education is a good development over the centuries.