“A Flood to a Trickle”? Pence on Maryland’s China Programs

By Elizabeth Redden. As part of a hard-line speech on China Thursday, Vice President Pence said that China seeks to exert pressure on scholars, students and universities abroad to toe the Chinese Communist Party line. He specifically cited the case of a University of Maryland, College Park, student from China, Yang Shuping, who came under heavy criticism back home after giving a spring 2017 commencement speech in which she praised “the fresh air of free speech” in the U.S. More...