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British universities fear that the loss of tens of thousands of Chinese students next year will lead to gaping holes in their budgets, after a survey by the British Council found that only a quarter of those intending to study in the UK were still going ahead.

According to the Higher Education Statistics Agency, the number of Chinese students studying at British universities rose above 120,000 for the first time last year, up from 89,000 in 2014-15. Their tuition fees are a key source of income.

Clearly, though, for those coming to Western universities to study, there will be a challenge: rising Sinophobia. My PhD thesis focused on Islamophobia in the university context. It concluded that the media exerts an enormous impact on the rise of Islamophobia on campuses. Now is the time to talk about the Sinophobia and racism that has re-emerged due to the media coverage of the coronavirus.

The excessive media coverage of the coronavirus incites Sinophobia and racism that have real, harmful consequences for current and future Chinese and Asian students in universities.

Sinophobia in the US

In the early days of the US response to the pandemic, President Donald Trump intentionally and incessantly labelled COVID-19 the Chinese virus. This language, from the most powerful individual in the world, was the most dangerous example of scapegoating for political purposes, says Gordon H Chang, a professor of American history at Stanford University.

The Columbia Daily Spectator reported that Chinese and Asian students have recently been the target of racist discrimination, including a hateful message in Butler Library and the nametags of two Chinese students, which were affixed to a suite door to identify the residents living there, had been burned in late January in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

A recent Pew Research Center poll showed that about 60% of Americans have an unfavourable view of China. This is an increase of 13% since 2018, according to Pew, and is the highest unfavourability rating since the poll began.

UK-based Sinophobia

Sadly, anti-Chinese sentiment has been soaring in the UK too. Actually, British Sinophobia has been around for a long time, including during the 1919 anti-Chinese riots in London and Chinese Restaurant Syndrome in the 1960s, a group of symptoms associated with eating food from a Chinese restaurant.

The University of York, hosting 2,000 Chinese students, issued a statement asking for respect and tolerance after xenophobic and racist comments were published on the anonymous confessions page Yorfess in March.

Yinxuan Huang, a sociology research fellow at City, University of London who has been carrying out research among Chinese Christian communities in the UK, supporting Chinese students during the coronavirus crisis, states that: Almost all incidents they reported were associated with maskaphobia, a fear of masks which then triggered racist attacks.

Most of the victims some got called virus and others got shoved were wearing masks when attacked. Many Chinese students feel that the issue of the mask is the single biggest culture shock they have ever experienced in the UK. They are now facing a dilemma and have to choose between two bad choices insecurity [about coronavirus] and fear [of racism].

A first-year chemistry student at Imperial College London who asked not to be named said: Theres a lot more fear among Chinese and Asian students than among European students.

There have been disagreements about whether to wear masks. I think everyone should be wearing them because the symptoms can take 14 days to appear. Thats why they tell people to quarantine for so long. She added: Some people are worried about wearing masks because there have been cases of racist abuse.

Different cultural approaches

The reasons for wearing or not wearing masks might stem from cultural differences and different approaches to combating COVID-19. Neo-liberal communities like the UK and the US initially maintained utilitarian and libertarian ideas in the early stages of the pandemic. In situations such as a pandemic, utilitarianism says that some people may be justly sacrificed for the greater good. It would benefit society to accept casualties, the argument goes, in order to minimise disruption.

There have been objections to wearing masks, social distancing and lockdowns on the libertarian basis that they infringe on individuals human rights. Clare Collier, director of advocacy at Liberty, said that legislation ushered in in response to the coronavirus was the biggest threat to civil liberties in a lifetime.

Some East Asian countries have successfully reduced the number of COVID-19 cases and kept their death rate down during the pandemic. Citizens have worked together to do what is best for the entire community, despite the loss of some personal freedom. Even if some associate communitarianism with authoritarianism, it has clearly been an effective factor in bids to combat the pandemic.

It is relatively common in some Asian countries to wear a face mask to protect against pollution and sickness. In the UK, however, some Chinese immigrants say wearing a mask makes them a target for hate.

Clearly, rising Sinophobia in the UK will affect Chinese and other Far East students decisions on whether to study in the UK. In an article published in China Daily, a prestigious Chinese newspaper in English, Mao Junxiang, a professor at and director of the Center for Human Rights Studies at Nankai University in China, stated that the novel coronavirus can cause epidemic outbreaks which can be contained, but the virus of prejudice will unleash a pandemic of discrimination and political antagonism which will be nearly impossible to control.

According to a survey by the Beijing Overseas Study Service Association, Chinas international education industry is one of the sectors that has suffered most from the pandemic.

The sharp decline in the number of Chinese students studying abroad for the 2020 autumn term could also be associated with increased difficulties in the application process, including visa applications and exit and entry restrictions, high unemployment rates and the current economic problems in China.

Stamp out Sinophobia

Despite the fact that US lawmakers are encouraging major social media platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to cooperate in promoting credible information about the virus, their efforts seem to be ineffective. Universities and individual community members must also participate in efforts to curb misinformation and Sinophobia.

I loved learning about Chinese cuisine with my Chinese friends during my PhD time at the University of Leeds in the UK. Too many Chinese students arrive in the UK without the English language skills to engage more widely with the student community. Too many find themselves lonely and isolated. Too many find solace in sticking with those they know and understand. I was infatuated with Asian hospitality and the Chinese contribution to academia here. The University of Leeds holds a special event for the Chinese New Year.

International students believe that the UK is a place that values multiculturalism, tolerance, equality, diversity and the rule of law. The growing coronavirus-related racism is truly disturbing.

What can universities do?

As the racial vilification is unlikely to be curbed easily, American and British universities should mull over how they might prevent and address Sinophobia on campus in addition to worrying about reopening and the financial issues stemming from lost international tuition fees.

First, universities should attack prejudice with the facts. The lack of specific knowledge on the coronavirus has culminated in the development of a culture of fear that in turn has ignited the development of irrational and often-racist beliefs.

Universities should therefore hold conferences, deliver leaflets and disseminate correct information about the pandemic in order to counter the misinformation from the media that fuels polarisation.

We also need to reframe the narrative about China and the Chinese. Today, most commentary portrays China as both a security threat and a sinister culture. Universities could celebrate Chinese New Year and promote China-related cultural events in a spirit of inclusion.

Exchange programmes with Chinese universities akin to Erasmus could also enable cultural interaction.

Investing in ethical infrastructure is crucial too. For instance, the University of California, Berkeley has revised the health information it gives students, which now reads: Be mindful of your assumptions about others and Self-awareness is important in not stigmatising others in our community.

In addition, universities could switch to a more punitive approach to discipline. Columbia University has called on students to report any racist incidents.

Ultimately and above all, we must abandon racial stereotyping. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a recent speech on the dangers of the coronavirus: The greatest enemy we face is not the virus itself; its the stigma that turns us against each other.

Serkan Aydin is an independent journalist and a research assistant at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom.

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By Michael GersteinThe New Mexican

The future has a way of being unimaginable.

The framers of New Mexicos 1911 constitution might never have predicted the general public and lobbyists would ever have to watch democracy in action from outside the state Capitol, as the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled they would in a 3-2 decision Tuesday.

Chief Justice Judith Nakamura described the ruling as a difficult one to make, but nonetheless concurred with Justices Barbara Vigil and Michael Vigil in denying a petition by several lawmakers to open the Roundhouse to the public for the special legislative session this week.

The ruling means those who want to follow the session will be watching hearings from their computer screens rather than in committee rooms and House and Senate galleries due to ongoing public health concerns from the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the court issued an order denying the petition, it has not yet released an opinion explaining the prevailing justices rationale.

Nakamura said one would be coming. The issues presented in oral arguments Tuesday were very important, and we do plan to write about the decision, she said.

Blair Dunn, a lawyer on behalf of 24 predominantly Republican lawmakers and the states former land commissioner, Libertarian Aubrey Dunn, who had filed the petition, had argued the framers of the state constitution intended for people to be physically present for legislative sessions.

Democracy dies in darkness, Blair Dunn said in his opening remarks to the court, quoting the slogan of the Washington Post.

Blair Dunn is Aubrey Dunns son and was a 2018 Libertarian candidate for attorney general.

Starting Thursday, lawmakers gather at the Capitol will begin debating tough decisions on how to shore up an estimated $2 billion shortfall in projected revenues for the fiscal year 2021 budget, largely because of financial havoc wreaked by the pandemic. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham also has outlined five key proposals that might come up for a vote during the session, including efforts to streamline the November general election and financial assistance for small businesses affected by the pandemic-related shutdown.

The Legislative Council announced earlier this month the building would be accessible only to members of the media, lawmakers and their staff.

The general public and the states corps of lobbyists will not be allowed into the building to watch floor hearings from the chamber galleries, offer input during committee hearings where legislation is debated and often amended before it moves to the House or Senate floor or rub elbows with lawmakers, as has happened for years before COVID-19 arrived.

Blair Dunn argued Tuesday the state constitution requires public access to the Roundhouse. Meaningful participation in a legislative session requires physical presence, he said and making an appearance is an action that should be protected under the First Amendment.

He also argued about the possible pitfalls of a technological solution to a closed Capitol.

Underscoring those arguments, the courthouse lost its internet connection for nearly 10 minutes Tuesday, forcing the Supreme Court to pause oral arguments.

When they came back online, justices questioned whether lawmakers would pause legislative proceedings this week if there are problems with video feed.

Thomas Hnasko, an attorney for the Legislative Council, assured justices that lawmakers would do so.

Hnasko argued streaming debate, committee hearings and votes online satisfies the constitutional requirement that the public be allowed to observe the New Mexico Legislature in action.

They would take that extremely seriously and stop the proceedings if technical issues prevent online streaming, he said. I have the utmost faith in that.

At the discretion of House committee chairs, the public will be allowed to speak at hearings via a Zoom video conference. The Senate has decided, however, the public will only be allowed to email a committee, rather than take part in a video conference, Hnasko said.

Meeting in person could result in a catastrophe for our citizens from a public health standpoint, he added.

Hnasko said virtual proceedings balance the need to protect the public from the acute public health problems brought by the pandemic with the need to ensure the legislative session remains open and transparent.

New Mexico Republican Party Chairman Steve Pearce denounced the justices decision in a statement.

Its the peoples government, Pearce said. Its a violation of what open government represents.

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The seasteading community has for years pushed the futuristic idea that living in independent, human-made communities on the ocean is the way to move society forward.

And what better time than a pandemic.

The safest place to be in a pandemic is a seastead, said Joe Quirk, president of the Seasteading Institute, an organization based in San Francisco that promotes the creation of new living spaces on the high seas or on far-flung islands.

Seasteaders have always been persistent, saying they will overcome big challenges in ocean engineering with time, creativity and an ethos fueled by Silicon Valley techie libertarianism. The idea began to gain steam a decade ago with help from an ex-Googler and money from Facebook board member Peter Thiel, and quickly became an extreme example of the tech industry's interest in reimagining every corner of society.

And now, rather than retreating in response to the global coronavirus pandemic, proponents have been as zealous as ever in the past few months about the drive to start new communities and, eventually, independent nations in remote corners of the ocean.

Advocates have delayed some plans because of travel restrictions, but through social media posts, an online conference and interviews, they said they were confident in their odds of surviving a pandemic at sea rather than land with more traditional access to food and medical care.

If we lived under water in isolation or in our small groups, and were down there for extended periods of time, we wouldnt have to worry about the coronavirus, Adam Jewell, co-host of the Colonize the Ocean podcast, said on a recent episode. (Some seasteaders advocate building not on top of the ocean but underneath the water.)

In the Reddit group r/seasteading, people have discussed how they would respond in the event a pandemic came to their sea home, with one suggesting that sick residents could simply detach and float away to a safe distance.

In Singapore, one advocate said the pandemic had underscored the need for less crowded housing for migrant workers in the Southeast Asian city-state, and that floating communities near shore were the answer.

Land use must be reviewed regularly for a compact country like ours. COVID-19 has put the spotlight on an area that needs urgent rethinking, Lim Soon Heng, founding president of the Society of Floating Solutions, wrote in an opinion piece in the Straits Times, a news outlet.

Quirk pointed to a list of Pacific island nations that, so far at least, are believed to have been largely spared from the pandemic, including the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Samoa.

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Almost all continental nations report COVID-19 cases. Almost all island nations report zero cases, Quirk said in an email.

Zero cases do not mean, of course, that remote islands will never experience coronavirus outbreaks before the development of a vaccine or effective treatments. Another kind of floating community, cruise ships, were the site of early outbreaks.

But Quirk said that island-based health care systems at least wont be overwhelmed by a rapid increase in cases, which is more likely to happen in populous cities.

When it comes to coping with a spike in COVID-19, we should worry more about Seattle than Palau, he said.

Seasteading communities dont currently exist or if they do, arent advertising themselves so its not as if people can flock to them even if they wanted to, but there is planning and money behind the dream.

Like virtual reality headsets or trips to Mars, seasteading fits a theme in Silicon Valley of seeking escape from the real world and unlike the other options, the ocean is close by and the experience lasts longer than a couple of hours.

But the pandemic and the disorganized U.S. response to it has also confirmed the fears of some people that centralized institutions arent up to the task of governing and should be replaced, possibly where no nations yet exist. They even have an existing motto to go with the idea: Vote with your boat.

If theres any moment in history where were rethinking institutions, now is the time, Joseph McKinney, president of the Startup Societies Foundation, told a virtual audience last month in the opening address of an online conference hosted by the foundation.

McKinney added in an interview that new communities could even be hubs of medical tourism and other innovation during a pandemic. Before it all seemed kind of kooky, but COVID has been a great reset, he said.

Seasteading combines streaks of various ideologies, including off-the-grid individualism, utopianism and sometimes anarcho-capitalism that values both profit and tax avoidance.

Not always, but in many cases this is a version of disaster capitalism. No crisis is going to go unexploited, said Raymond Craib, a history professor at Cornell University who is writing a book on early examples of seasteading.

After Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, self-described Puertopians arrived on the island seeking low taxes and a dream of turning it into something like a Hong Kong of the Caribbean through bitcoin investments.

Craib, who has criticized seasteaders as libertarian exit strategists, said he is not surprised to see its adherents becoming more zealous. Its an ideological project that they are not going to relent on, he said.

The pandemic has caused some delays. In Panama, the firm Ocean Builders was setting up a test near a marina where tech enthusiasts could stay for a month or more while contributing expertise, but that has been postponed, Quirk said. Ocean Builders said this week that some construction there continues.

There are significant barriers, including some existing governments. A seasteading effort by an American former bitcoin investor affiliated with Ocean Builders ended last year when the Thai navy towed the structure to shore, and two years ago French Polynesia scuttled a plan to create artificially made islands off Tahiti.

And there are daunting logistical challenges involved with building homes on the ocean, supplying food and planning for what could go wrong now with the added pandemic complication, as well as more people getting used to having groceries delivered right to their door.

Seasteaders have discussed possible solutions, such as pandemic-safe drone deliveries and hydroponics systems for growing food out at sea.

Theres a solution for everything, but theyre not very realistic solutions, said Isabelle Simpson, a Ph.D. candidate at McGill University who is studying seasteaders. Theres a way in which the seastead community can quickly become a prison.

Marc Collins Chen, CEO of Oceanix, a company with the relatively modest goal of creating floating neighborhoods for existing cities minus the libertarian ideology, said hes begun thinking through possible design changes with pandemics in mind. Permanent sensors inside buildings could detect outbreaks as they happen, he said.

The Seasteading Institutes Quirk said nobody knows for sure the solution to the coronavirus pandemic, so people should try lots of ideas including seasteading.

Humanity can only discover the best solutions by lots of policies exploring the space of possibilities and learning from each other, he said.

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How to register to vote in New York.

Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, for the 2020primary elections as voters choose their preferred candidate going into November's general election.

Primary elections are party specific, and you must be registered with a party holding a primary to participate.

Through June 21, party members can also vote early at designated locations. In Chemung County, early voting will be held at the Board of Elections office, 378 S. Main St., Elmira, from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Absentee ballots must also be mailed by June 23.

For questions about registration, residents can visit the Chemung County Board of Elections, call 607-737-5475 or send an email votechemung@chemungcountyny.gov. You can also view a sample ballot at chemungcountyny.gov.

Winners of these party-specific races will go on to the general election on Nov. 3.

In Chemung County,Otavio Otto Campanella and Damian Sonsireare running on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines to fill the county court seat left vacant when former Chemung County Judge Christopher Baker was elected to the state Supreme Court in 2019.

Campanella is currently a judge in City of Elmira Court, and prior to his time on the bench, handled both prosecution and defense of criminal cases, as well as civil cases. Sonsire spent nearly 17 years as an assistant Chemung County district attorney, and currently prosecutes child abuse and neglect cases as an assistant county attorney.

While DemocratJoe Biden has already officially clinched the 1,991 pledged delegates he needs to be the party's presidential nominee, New York's delayed Democratic presidential primary will proceed.

The primary was scheduled for April but delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to cancel the primary, since Biden was the only remaining candidate, but a lawsuit overturned that decision.

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Under cover of the coronavirus chaos and amidour national uprising, Republicans have quietly uprooted some of their most controversial right-wing members of Congress only to replace them with even more radical contenders for federal office, including devotees of the nonsensical QAnon conspiracy theory, ahead of this fall's election.

More than 10years after the Tea Party movement gave rise to the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus by targeting longtime incumbent Republicans who were deemed insufficiently right-wing, a recent set of wins by insurgent candidates over some of the most radical Republicans in Congress makes clear that the GOP has now passed every off-ramp on the road to extremism. While the mass Republican retirements ahead of the 2018 midterm elections greatly weakened the GOP, this cycle's purging of incumbents in safe red districts, will likely serve to further radicalize the GOP caucus.

On Saturday, in a novel case of voter suppression, a small group of Republicans in Virginia's 5th district voted to oust Rep. Denver Riggleman, a far-right Freedom Caucus member who voted with President Trump nearly 95% of the time since winning a competitive 2018 race amid a Democratic wave.

An Air Force veteran who favors the legalization of marijuana, but can hardly be described as a moderate, Riggleman ran afoul of his fellow Republicans when his libertarian leanings led him to officiate a same-sex wedding ceremony for two former campaign volunteers last year.

"I'd have been a coward if I didn't," Riggleman told NPR. "The Republican Party is the party of Lincoln, we're the party of individual liberty."

"The Republican Party, when you look at the creed to protect civil liberties and religious liberties, could be the most inclusive party in the country," Riggleman said on the campaign trail. "And you know, why aren't we a big-tent party? Why aren't we looking at liberties first? Why aren't we allowing people to live the way they want to live and stopping the government from reaching into every aspect of our lives?"

Instead, after losing every statewide race in the past decade and losing the entire General Assembly, Virginia Republicans decided that fighting equal rights for the LGBTQ community was the hill to die on, during Pride month no less. Due to the coronavirus, and in a process Riggleman claims was engineered to hurt his campaign, roughly 2,500 party activists cast ballots in a drive-through format in a parking lot. Although the district is larger than New Jersey, Republicans only allowed voting at one location a church in the winner's home area.

Bob Good, who defeated Riggleman in that primary, is a fundamentalist zealot and aformer athletics director at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University. Good essentially ran for office because he was upset by Riggleman's involvement in a gay wedding, calling Riggleman "out of step with the base of the party." A born-again evangelical Christian and staunch social conservative, Good wants to end birthright citizenship and opposes abortion for any reason even if the mother's life is in danger.

Republicans have a six-point registration edge in Virginia's rural 5th district, so in all likelihood Good will take office as an extremist backbencher who introduces wild bills that go nowhere. But there is a slim chance that Good won't even make the general election ballot this fall, as the Washington Post explains:

Good missed the Tuesday deadline for filing a key form related to his candidacy, but he hand-delivered the form to the state elections office on Friday afternoon, election officials said. The board of elections routinely offers extensions in cases like these, and changing election dates due to the coronavirus may have created confusion about the deadline.

This may just be Republicans shooting themselves in the foot. The district has been re-gerrymandered to offset declines in rural populations and growth in urban populations in the last two cycles because it's been harder and harder to maintain as a "safe" seat for the GOP each cycle. After Riggleman's loss this weekend, the Cook Political Report announced it will movethe Virginia 5thfrom "Likely Republican" to "Lean Republican." If the GOP had just left this seat alone, it would have taken a lotfor a Democrat to unseat Riggleman, even in another wave election. Good winning this primary means that there's a slightly better chance for this seat to flip than there was before. It's also conceivable Rigglemanruns as a write-in Libertarian candidate, even just to play spoiler since he views the primary process as so rigged.

The notorious Rep. Steve King of Iowa is another right-wing incumbent who has already been booted from office this cycle. King, who has represented Iowa's 4th district in the northwestern part of the state since 2013, suffered a nearly double-digit defeat at the hands of state Sen. Randy Feenstra, who outraised King in the first quarter of the year by nearly $400,000.

It was the first defeat of King's career, who has long been outspoken about his radical views. He warned on Twitter that "cultural suicide by demographic transformation must end" and cautioned that Americans cannot "restore our civilization with somebody else's babies."

After winning re-election by only three points in a deepred district in 2018, the nine-term Republican congressman was finally removed from three committee assignments by the leaders in his own party after he questioned the offensiveness of the term "white supremacist" in an interview with The New York Times.

Feenstra did not attack King forhis racism, however, instead touting his A+ rating from the National Rifle Association and endorsements from the Chamber of Commerce, former Iowa governor Terry Branstad and the National Right to Life Committee. With King's loss, the chances for a Republican pick-up appear further out of reach.

Republicans also appear poised to send at least one QAnon believer to Congress this fall. Roughly 50 QAnon supporters are running for Congress this year, according to Media Matters.

In May, Jo Rae Perkins won the Republican Senate primary in Oregon with more 49% of the vote against three other candidates. Shetold the New York Times, referring to the "Q" conspiracy theories,that "as people put together more and more pieces of the puzzle, they can see, yeah, this is real." She's been endorsed by Republicans in the state legislature and by the Republican candidate vying for Oregon's 4th congressional district.

"Q is a patriot," said Marjorie Taylor Greene in a YouTube video posted in 2017, referencing the anonymous seeder of the online theory that DonaldTrump is waging a secret war against a cabal of pedophile political elites.

On Tuesday, Greene beat six Republican candidates running for the seat left vacated by retiring Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia, qualifying for an August runoff against an an opponent she led in the first round by 20 points. The district is a safe Republican seat, and Greene claims to have the endorsement of Rep Jim Jordan of Ohio, one of the leading House Republicans.

These Republican candidates who believe in a satanic, pedophile deep state, and want to purge any member who even participates in a same-sex wedding are supported by Republican officials andleadership, as well as the party'svoters. Forget what that says about these particular individuals and their campaigns what does it sayabout the Republican Party?

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