The future of 13 Confucius Institutes across Australian universities is in doubt under the scrutiny of the federal government’s foreign veto policy.
Set up in collaboration with Chinese universities, the institutes were the focus of a series of protests in 2019 amid concerns they function as propaganda platforms for the Chinese Communist Party.
Foreign Minister Maryse Payne exercised the government’s foreign veto policy against China last month as she cancelled Victoria’s Belt and Road Deal with the CCP amid rising diplomatic tensions.