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University of Tennessee among universities urged to cut ties with Chinese-backed scholarship program

By The Associated Press

July 10, 2025

Leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party said Wednesday they’d sent letters to Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Temple University, the University of Tennessee and three University of California locations raising concerns about the schools’ partnerships with the China Scholarship Council.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: China, international students, University of Tennessee

A new Tennessee law blocks some immigrants from buying property

By Blaise Gainey

May 30, 2023

A new law aims to prevent foreign governments from buying agricultural land in Tennessee. But it has a wide scope that could affect certain people and not just their countries.

Filed Under: Politics, WPLN News Tagged With: China, Housing, immigrant, immigrants, Jason Zachary, Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition, TIRRC, tnleg, tnpol

Two years after the FBI labeled him a spy, a Tennessee professor returns to the classroom

By Marianna Bacallao

April 7, 2022

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Civil rights advocates have criticized the so-called “China Initiative” for targeting professors based on their ethnicity. For one Tennessee professor, it’s been a long journey back to the classroom after his arrest.

Filed Under: Education, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: China, University of Tennessee, UT

Ad from Conservative Group Warns of Chinese Designs on Tennessee Coal

By Bradley George

March 19, 2013

A new TV ad from a conservative group warns mountaintop removal mining will ruin Tennessee…by sending coal to China.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: China, mountaintop removal mining, tennessee conservative union

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