Daily bread 12/17/2017

• Australia, New Zealand Face China’s Influence | Council on Foreign Relations

  • has stepped up efforts
  •  sparked concern
  • amid signs
  • Canberra has to be “very conscious of the possibilities of foreign interference in our universities.”
  • Confucius Institutes
  • censor criticism of Beijing
  • McCarthyism
  • bombshell report
  • have increasingly been tasked with monitoring China-born students who attend foreign universities
  • Regional Security Overtones
  • significant strategic and economic ramifications
  • lasting tilt
  • seismic consequences
  • Wielding greater influence
  • a robust response
  • stigmatize Chinese-Australians
  • due diligence
  • Australia is stepping up its defenses

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