China | Ideology

Class struggle

Officials are trying to stifle independent voices in universities

|BEIJING

IN THE first week of March university students in China will return from a break of six weeks or more. They will find a new chill in the air. While they have been away, officials have been speaking stridently—indeed, in the harshest terms heard in years—about the danger of “harmful Western influences” on campuses, and the need to tighten ideological control over students and academic staff.

This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Class struggle”

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