China influencing leading British universities, documentary claims

Channel 4’s Dispatches claims University of Nottingham closed school under Beijing pressure and Imperial College professor collaborated on AI

Leading British universities have been influenced by Chinese agents, with diplomatic and unofficial pressure resulting in censorship on campus, according to a Channel 4 documentary.

The Dispatches documentary, Secrets and Power: China in the UK, alleges that the University of Nottingham closed its School of Contemporary Chinese Studies in 2016 in response to pressure from Beijing.