Sweden’s Stockholm University will end its partnership with the Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute, the school said.
The agreement between the Confucius Institute and Stockholm University, which was signed in 2005, expired at the end of 2014 and will not be renewed. The Confucius Institute at Stockholm University will close on 30 June 2015.
Educational institutions in the US and Canada made similar moves last year, citing concerns about foreign interference in academic freedom.
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