German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), which published new recommendations for academic cooperation with China on Monday 15/01/2024. These recommendations are intended as guidelines for universities, but the preceding analysis of German-Chinese university and academic cooperation is particularly alarming.
It found that only 120 German academics and researchers visited China in 2021. This figure, compiled by the DAAD and the German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW), represents a decrease of almost 83 percent compared to 2015. The fact that Chinese universities had isolated themselves from the outside world for several years due to the implementation of zero-Covid puts this figure into perspective. Nevertheless, according to the DAAD, the mobility statistics for German students and researchers are showing a clear downward trend.