A Growing Syllabus

Since Xi Jinping’s 2021 speech to a Collective Study Session of the Politburo urging stronger “external propaganda” — during which he called for fostering “reserve talent” — at least seven Chinese universities have opened schools of international communication, five of them in 2026 alone.

Interactive graphic created by Claude with Lingua Sinica research. Boundaries: Natural Earth; provincial boundaries from Apache ECharts map data.