{"id":2014277,"date":"2023-08-28T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-28T13:32:47","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T17:32:47","slug":"kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance-2\/","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-2%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=2014277&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 \u200cFaces Resistance to Mandate\u200b Chinese Language\u2062 Study<\/h2>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s government has \u200bfaced\u200c \u201cwild\u200d resistance\u201d to\u200b a mandate that \u2063students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kremlin-to-force-russias-students-to-learn-chinese-despite-wild-resistance-2\/\" title=\"Russia's students will be compelled to learn Chinese by the Kremlin, despite facing strong opposition.\">top universities study<\/a> the Chinese language, a \u200bKremlin adviser acknowledged, but \u200cit intends to forge ahead.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere will be no violence, we \u2062will convince, but\u2063 at \u200dthe\u2062 same time, we will move in\u2062 this direction if we want\u2063 to be competitive,\u201d Kremlin science \u2063and \u2064technology\u2063 adviser Andrei Fursenko said, per an unofficial\u2062 translation of a state media\u2063 report.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Russian students at at least one major\u2062 university\u2064 have \u200bcondemned\u2064 the\u2064 mandate as \u201cabsurd\u2062 and harmful,\u201d but\u200c Fursenko maintained\u2063 it is essential given China\u2019s prominence \u2064in science and\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-slam-bidens-made-in-america-tax-plan-warn-of-devastating-impacts\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers slam Biden\u2019s \u2018Made in America Tax Plan,\u2019 warn of devastating impacts\">technology industries<\/a>.\u200d Chinese President Xi \u2063Jinping\u2019s regime, which\u2064 has \u2064emerged as Putin\u2019s most important \u2062international\u2064 buttress, sees\u2062 it as a way to &#8220;open up \u2063new horizons and promising prospects\u201d \u2062for the two societies, in keeping with \u200dXi\u2019s agreement with Putin \u2062in the\u200c 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> \u2062of\u200d Ukraine.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They adopted a joint Chinese-Russian statement, \u2063which provided for\u2063 strengthening cooperation in the\u2063 area of education, boosting the quality and efficiency of education for Russian citizens in China and Chinese citizens in\u2062 Russia, strengthening \u2064cooperation\u2064 in the area of\u2064 teaching languages, as well \u2064as <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.\">developing bilateral exchanges<\/a> between students from the two countries,\u201d Ambassador Zhang Hanhui, \u2064the Chinese envoy to Russia, \u2064said \u200blast week.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fursenko, \u200cspeaking at a youth\u200c education forum, asserted that about\u2062 30% \u200bof scientific\u2064 research texts are written in\u2062 Chinese, according\u200d to\u200b RIA Novosti.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDo we want to stay in the [scientific] trend? \u2064Let\u2019s move \u200don,\u201d he said. &#8220;The problem is \u2063that, of \u2064course, it\u2062 is necessary to ensure that the Russian language remains among several languages of science.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That line of Kremlin reasoning overstates the significance of\u200d Chinese language\u200b sources in the field, according to a prominent Russian astrophysicist who sided with the disgruntled students of the\u2062 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor basic sciences, there\u2063 is only one valid language,\u200b English. \u2062And this will not change\u200b in the foreseeable \u2062future,&#8221; Dr. Sergei Popov said earlier this \u2063year. \u201cOne hundred percent of what I read \u200cand \u206390% of what\u200c I write is in English. The \u2064question of \u2064Chinese may arise, less frequently, in the areas of engineering \u2064or technical subjects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The unhappy students at the Moscow Institute \u200dof Physics and Technology argued \u2062in March that &#8220;the \u2063number of collaborations between our scientists and \u2064Chinese scientists has not \u2064reached a level that makes learning Chinese necessary,\u201d as part of a backlash against\u2063 a regulation that mandates four years of Chinese \u200clanguage instruction at the apparent expense of other \u2064European languages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s no secret \u200cthat geopolitical changes are underway right now and that they affect\u2063 our entire lives,\u201d student \u2062council president \u200cIlia Zakharov told Le\u200c 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. 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