Foreign Influence: China’s Attempts to Interfere With Canadian Universities

A look at a precedent-setting case involving a Chinese student passing on information about other students to the Chinese Embassy

Concordia University's downtown campus in Montreal. The Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies at Concordia held a talk by Uyghur leader Dolkun Isa on March 26, 2019. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz

The attempt last week by a Chinese diplomat to prevent an exiled Uyghur activist from talking at a Canadian university is the latest in a string of cases in which the Chinese communist regime tried to exert influence in Canadian universities.

It is yet one more incident in a long-trend of Chinese interference in Canadian educational institutions.