{"id":6941,"date":"2019-08-13T15:32:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/university-of-technology-sydney-staff-refuse-chinas-demand-for-passport-numbers"},"modified":"2019-08-13T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T06:32:04","slug":"university-of-technology-sydney-staff-refuse-chinas-demand-for-passport-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=6941","title":{"rendered":"University of Technology Sydney staff refuse China&#8217;s demand for passport numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Education sought personal details including dates of birth from academics teaching Chinese-Australian course<\/p>\n<p>Academics at the University of Technology Sydney have refused a demand from the Chinese Ministry of Education for their passport numbers and dates of birth, in order to be able to continue to teach a joint Chinese-Australian course in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-one UTS academic staff were told they were required to disclose their passport numbers and dates of birth as part of a Chinese government review of a biotechnology course run jointly by UTS and the Hebei Normal University (HNU), near Beijing in northern China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/13\/university-of-technology-sydney-staff-refuse-chinas-demand-for-passport-numbers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministry of Education sought personal details including dates of birth from academics teaching Chinese-Australian courseAcademics at the University of Technology Sydney have refused a demand from the Chinese Ministry of Education for their passport num&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,597,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-universities","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6942,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6941\/revisions\/6942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}