Tensions Over Hong Kong Unrest Flare on US College Campuses

Emerson College student Frances Hui poses in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, U.S. on Oct. 2, 2019. Tensions over Hong Kong have been flaring at campuses around the world that host large numbers of visiting Chinese students. Hui, of Hong Kong, faced threatening language from classmates from mainland China after she published a column in the student newspaper, “I am from Hong Kong, not China.” Charles Krupa/AP

NEW HAVEN, Conn.—As political tensions flare back home, Hong Kong students on U.S. college campuses say they have been ostracized and in some cases threatened by fellow students from mainland China, and they suspect they are being watched from afar by Beijing.

Some say they see the hand of the Chinese regime working in ways that threaten academic freedom.