Instead of worrying about political interference from abroad, UK higher education administrators should deal with institutional decay at home
The recently released report Cold Crisis: Academic Freedom and Interference in China Studies in the UK, featured in British media, opens with a sobering statement: “The study of China in the UK is in crisis.” On this point, I wholeheartedly agree. But the diagnosis offered by the report misses the mark entirely.
However, this narrative overlooks a more urgent and uncomfortable truth. Yes, China studies in the UK is indeed in crisis – not because of Chinese interference, but because of years of domestic neglect.
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