Published in 2023 by The Henry Jackson Society

14 Warwick’s CSSA “receives official guidance [接受官方指导 ] from Chinese consulate-general” 15 while the Bristol CSSA is “subordinate to” [隶属于] and “officially guided by” the Chinese Embassy in the UK.16 In 2019, the head of the Education Section of the Chinese Embassy pointed students to CSSAUK’s official WeChat account as an information source guided by the Education Section of the Embassy in the UK. [...] Rather than a normal academic organisation of the kind found in free societies, the WRSA states in the English introductory paragraph on its own website that it is “under the leadership of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee [中共中央书记处] and guidance of the United- Front Work Department”.29 But in the Mandarin introductory paragraph, WRSA states that it is “managed by the Central United Fron. [...] He also put forward several initiatives relating to the management of CSSAs, including standardisation and institutionalisation of the management model, as well as the idea of the integration of students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, with “no sense of exclusivity towards overseas Chinese groups and university student associations”.51 The Chairman of CSSAUK led the CSSA cadres to study the mess. [...] But the representative rejected this and said this opinion “just show[s] the viciousness of their intentions”.76 On 12 May, in the hope of making the representative “happy to participate [in the event] and share your perspective”, the organiser agreed to remove the flag from the advertising poster. [...] Many people opposed such a move and reported it to the Proctors of the university, resulting in the CSSA losing its association to the university when it failed to submit its constitution for review.112 In the academic year 2017–18, the LSE CSSA was disbanded as a student society by the LSE SU for one year at the end of the academic year following numerous complaints about the running of the socie.