{"id":7867,"date":"2020-03-22T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2020-03-21T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T22:12:08","slug":"western-universities-rely-on-china-after-the-virus-that-may-not-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7867","title":{"rendered":"Western Universities Rely on China. After the Virus, That May Not Last."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/03\/21\/world\/europe\/coronavirus-chinese-students-uk.html\">Benjamin Mueller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ParagraphBlock-paragraph css-1lkp5wx-baseColumn-dropcapstyles evys1bk0\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, \"times new roman\", times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn quite a short period of time, we have become sort of addicted to one source of income,\u201d said Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies at King\u2019s College London. \u201cIf the worst case happens and Chinese students don\u2019t want to come here in September, it\u2019s potentially a kind of seismic change.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"ParagraphBlock-paragraph css-1lkp5wx-baseColumn-dropcapstyles evys1bk0\" style=\"margin: 0px 20px 0.78125rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: nyt-imperial, georgia, \"times new roman\", times, serif; font-size: 1.125rem; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.5625rem; vertical-align: baseline; width: calc(100% - 40px); max-width: 600px; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>In Britain, some Chinese students are fuming that universities did not act more decisively to move classes online and scrap major events like spring balls. In interviews, they said they were weighing the health benefits of wearing a surgical mask with their fear of being racially abused or even attacked,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><u><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-england-london-51723523\/coronavirus-student-talks-of-oxford-street-racist-attack\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(50, 104, 145); text-decoration-line: underline\">as a student from Singapore was last month in London.<\/a><\/u><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mueller: \u201cIn quite a short period of time, we have become sort of addicted to one source of income,\u201d said Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies at King\u2019s College London. \u201cIf the worst case happens and Chinese students don\u2019t want to come here in September, it\u2019s potentially a kind of seismic change.\u201d In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}