https://www.scmp.com/rss/502788/feed Isaiah Schrader is a junior at Yale College and the opinion editor of Yale Daily News. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Someday, perhaps soon, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will sign an agreement resolving the US-China trade war. But the trade dispute has exposed more fundamental cleavages between China and the community of democratic nations. The most important clashes between China and the West concern not soybean exports nor the protection of patents, but free expression and open inquiry. Nowhere are those clashes taking place more vigorously than on university campuses. Consider the case of Nathan Law, the Hong... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/why-universities-must-push-back-against-chinese-government-influence/article/3037658?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/why-universities-must-push-back-against-chinese-government-influence/article/3037658?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Nov 2019 09:31:49 +0000 Someday, perhaps soon, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump will sign an agreement resolving the US-China trade war. But the trade dispute has exposed more fundamental cleavages between China and the community of democratic nations. The most important clashes between China and the West concern not soybean exports nor the protection of patents, but free expression and open inquiry. Nowhere are those clashes taking place more vigorously than on university campuses. Consider the case of Nathan Law... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3037309/trade-war-not-front-line-chinas-rivalry-western-democracies?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3037309/trade-war-not-front-line-chinas-rivalry-western-democracies?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Nov 2019 04:00:14 +0000