On a related note this is an upside of the 2023 freedom of speech legislation (which also has many downsides) and a tangential relationship to the new Foreign Influence Recognition Scheme regulations (which probably wouldn’t cover this), but are adjacent). I spent a fair while complaining about FIRS recently to colleagues (because it actually doesn’t apply to very much University activity but occupies yet another disproportion of my governance work).
It isn’t just institutions that get this pressure from foreign governments, it’s also individuals who need to be treated with care and respect regardless of one’s own take on the particular issues they are pressured over. That requires careful judgment and doesn’t always easily align with institutional reputation or financial consequences. Thankfully I feel supported to do the right thing, but it isn’t easy, especially as foreign governments (and our own) can be simultaneously benign and malign…
Luke
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