In the days following the arrest last December of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, UBC administrators and faculty scrambled to assess the impact that rising Canada-China tensions could have on student enrolment, fundraising and research, internal records show.
Amid concern that Chinese scholars might seeking to exploit the openness of Western academic institutions, some American research universities announced they would stop accepting funding from Chinese companies, including telecommunications giant Huawei, and pledged to boost screening procedures before partnering with people or entities from China, Inside Higher Ed reported.
At UBC, where Chinese students comprise more than one-third of the international student population (there were 5,715 Chinese students on the main campus in 2018-19), officials have publicly said over the past year they have no intention of ending their relationship with Huawei.
Huawei sponsors $9.5 million in research agreements with UBC, campus spokesman Kurt Heinrich said Wednesday.
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