Sun June, 2020, Age: 3 years
The University of Queensland has banned foreign diplomats from being awarded honorary academic positions, after comments by a senior Chinese official who praised the “spontaneous patriotic behavior” of pro-Beijing protesters involved in a campus brawl last year. The university’s chancellor told Guardian Australia the controversial statement released last year by China’s consul-general in Brisbane, Xu Jie, was “unacceptable” and would have breached its code of conduct.
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