Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration

by E Wayne Ross on December 13, 2007

The Guardian: Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration

British universities must stop courting China and start seeing the country as a threat, the former head of Nottingham University’s Chinese campus warned today.

In a report from the higher education thinktank Agora, the founding provost of Nottingham-Ningbo, Prof Ian Gow, claimed China wants to profit from the UK’s strengths in science and technology by absorbing the talent and intellectual property of its partners.