Chinese academic visits banned at Canberra’s Australian Defence Force Academy

The university where future leaders of the Australian Defence Force are sent to study has moved to limit research collaboration with China, including ending visits from academics to its Canberra campus, amid growing military tensions with Beijing. Since the 1980s, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has provided academic education to officer and midshipman cadets at the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) in Canberra, and postgraduate programs for Defence civilians and other students. Until recently, a large proportion of international students at UNSW Canberra were from China, and the university, which is one of the ADF’s tertiary education providers,…