Taipei Times
Date: Jul 03, 2019
By: Lin Chia-nan  /  Staff reporter

Academics working as full-time teachers at Chinese universities from next month will not be recruited by Academia Sinica in line with the law, the academy said yesterday.

In an official document announcing the policy on June 6, the academy said that starting from next month, Taiwanese working as full-time teachers at Chinese universities cannot serve as part-time researchers, former Academia Sinica researcher Liu Kung-chung (劉孔中) wrote in an op-ed published by the Chinese-language China Times yesterday.

While the academy says its policy is in line with the Act Governing Relations Between the People of the Taiwan Area and the Mainland Area (臺灣地區與大陸地區人民關係條例), it is misinterpreting the law by saying that all Chinese universities are overseen by the Chinese Ministry of Education, Liu wrote.

Liu questioned why the academy is “attempting to sever ties with Taiwanese academics working in China” and asked whether its new policy is to “serve President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) administration’s scheme to further restrict cross-strait interaction.”    [FULL  STORY8]