>Education minister Robbert Dijkgraaf said he was investigating curbs on students funded by the state-run Chinese Scholarship Council after several universities started excluding them on security grounds.
>Recipients of grants have to swear allegiance to the Communist party, return to China within two years of completing their studies and report to the Chinese embassy in the country where they study.
These scholarship requirements are a cause for concern.
(downvote if you swear allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party)
If you get a scholarship from your country to study abroad I think it is fair, and in fact sensible, that a condition be that you should come back afterwards.
As for swearing allegiance to the party, in China the party is the state so this is effectively swearing allegiance to the PRC and therefore, in context, not that different from US school children swearing allegiance to the USA.
Universities and countries need to choose: do they want foreign students and the fees they pay, or do they want to keep knowledge in-country (which has never worked).
