Submitted on Friday 19th May 2023
Rejected on Wednesday 24th May 2023
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban and shut down Confucius Institutes across the United Kingdom
We demand the government to completely ban and shut down Confucius Institutes across the UK to ensure the personal safety of British nationals, diaspora communities who living in the UK. We also urge the government to formulate policies to protect the freedoms of academic and speech in universities.
Banning Confucius Institutes in the UK, as the Prime Minister called for in June 2022, would help stop Beijing’s propaganda that damages core British values.
Confucius Institutes are a threat to universities' academic and freedom of speech as the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill have debated in the House of Commons. Their influence has led universities to restrict students' speech and academic rights.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Universities are autonomous institutions and can choose who they cooperate with, including whether to partner with Chinese Higher Education Institutions or Confucius Institutes. These partnerships are therefore a matter for individual universities, not the Government or House of Commons.
We could accept a petition calling on the Government to regulate international partnerships of higher education institutions, with a view to ensuring these do enable undue foreign influence.
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