{"id":2014269,"date":"2023-08-28T13:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:27:19","slug":"kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s students will be compelled to learn Chinese by the Kremlin, despite facing strong opposition."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2014269&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Russian Government Faces Resistance\u2063 to Mandate Chinese\u200d Language \u200cStudy<\/h2>\n<p>Russian President \u2064Vladimir Putin\u2019s government has faced \u201cwild resistance\u201d to a mandate that students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance\/\" title=\"Russia's students will be compelled to learn Chinese by the Kremlin, despite facing strong opposition.\">top universities \u200cstudy<\/a> the Chinese language,\u2063 a Kremlin adviser acknowledged, but it intends to forge ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no violence, we will convince,\u200c but at the\u2064 same time, we will move in this direction\u200d if \u200bwe want to be competitive,\u201d Kremlin science and technology \u2064adviser Andrei Fursenko said, per an unofficial translation of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-sends-25-warplanes-into-taiwanese-airspace\/\" title=\"China Sends 25 Warplanes Into Taiwanese Airspace\">state media report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian students at at least \u200done \u2064major \u2064university have \u200bcondemned\u200d the mandate as \u201cabsurd and harmful,\u201d but \u2064Fursenko maintained it is essential \u2062given China\u2019s prominence in science and technology \u200dindustries. Chinese President Xi Jinping\u2019s regime, which has emerged\u200c as \u2063Putin\u2019s most important international buttress, sees it as a\u2063 way to &#8220;open up\u2064 new horizons and promising prospects\u201d for the two societies, in keeping with Xi\u2019s agreement \u200dwith Putin in the communique they released before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-major-things-biden-failed-to-address-in-his-speech-to-congress\/\" title=\"6 Major Things Biden Failed To Address In His Speech To Congress\">full-scale invasion<\/a> of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They adopted a joint Chinese-Russian statement, which provided for strengthening \u2063cooperation in the area of education,\u2064 boosting \u2062the\u2062 quality and efficiency of education for Russian citizens in China and Chinese citizens in Russia, strengthening cooperation in the area of teaching\u2062 languages, as well as developing bilateral exchanges \u2062between students from the two countries,\u201d\u2064 Ambassador Zhang Hanhui, the Chinese\u2062 envoy to Russia, said last week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fursenko, speaking at a youth education forum, asserted that about 30% of scientific research texts \u200care written in Chinese,\u2063 according to\u2064 RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDo \u2064we want to stay in the [scientific] trend? Let\u2019s move on,\u201d he said. &#8220;The problem is that, of course, it is necessary to ensure that the Russian language remains \u200camong several languages of science.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That line of Kremlin reasoning overstates the significance of Chinese language sources in the field,\u200d according to a prominent\u2063 Russian astrophysicist who sided with the disgruntled students of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor basic sciences, there is only\u200b one valid language, English. And this will not change in the foreseeable future,&#8221; Dr. Sergei Popov said earlier this year. \u201cOne hundred \u200bpercent of\u200c what I read and 90% of what I \u200bwrite \u200dis in English. The question of Chinese\u2062 may arise, less frequently, in the areas of engineering or technical \u2064subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unhappy students at\u200c the Moscow Institute of Physics and\u2064 Technology \u2063argued in March that &#8220;the\u200b number\u2062 of collaborations between our scientists\u200c and Chinese\u2064 scientists\u2063 has not reached a level that makes learning Chinese necessary,\u201d as part of a backlash against a regulation that mandates four years of Chinese language instruction at the apparent expense of other European languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no secret that geopolitical changes are underway right now and\u200b that they affect our entire lives,\u201d student council president Ilia Zakharov \u2062told Le Monde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government, led by President Vladimir Putin, is determined to proceed with its plan of mandating Chinese language studies at top universities, despite facing significant opposition. While violence will not be employed, the government aims to persuade and convince, emphasizing the need for competitiveness in this direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2014270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2014269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2014269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2014269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2014269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}