China’s Western Values Debate Heats Up Online

It is not every day that a country’s education minister talks about banning textbooks and the threat of Western values. But in China, such talk is becoming increasingly common. Recently, China's Minister of Education Yuan Guiren stirred up a fierce online debate by calling to ban textbooks containing what he described as harmful Western values. He has also written about hostile forces infiltrating the country's centers of higher learning and threats the Internet poses to the...

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