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China-run institutes face German objection

China's Confucius institutes are under the scanner again in Europe. As in the latest, Germany's education and research minister has raised alarm on what she terms China's undue influence on German universities via the institutes. In an interview with a German newspaper, Stark-Watzinger said that clear limits must be set over direct influence.