BEIJING: China’s education ministry has launched a “comprehensive” inspection of school textbooks to remove unapproved alterations or foreign content, state media reported, amid a push to combat Western influence in China’s schools.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has overseen a drive to re-assert the ruling Communist Party, its ideology and its history at the centre of education, and to promote patriotism in the place of ideas that the party considers Western.
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