Watchdog flags China education exchange gaps

STRAIT A: Since the end of COVID-19 restrictions, exchanges have surged, with China not just targeting college students, but also elementary and high-school students By Jonathan Chin / Staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Poorly regulated cross-strait academic exchanges have resulted in a lopsided flow of young Taiwanese going to China and numerous schools failing to register exchange activities, the Control Yuan said yesterday. An investigation found that the Ministry of Education and the Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) failed to oversee educational exchanges with China, Control Yuan members Lin Wen-cheng (林文程) and Tien Chiu-chin (田秋堇) said in a statement, urging the agencies to address the shortcomings. The Chinese Communist Party has long regarded young Taiwanese as a major target of