Germany’s University of Trier to Suspend Its Confucius Institute

A man walks beside the statue of Confucius at the Confucius Temple in Beijing, China, on Sept. 28, 2010. Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images

The German University of Trier will suspend all activities of the Beijing-controlled Confucius Institute (CI) on its campus, coming after the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sanctioned European agencies and individuals who expressed support for oppressed Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang Province.

The university in a recent statement expressed concern over recent steps taken by the Chinese regime “to restrict freedom by imposing sanctions on numerous scholars throughout Europe and also on the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS).”