University probes Chinese professor over bullying allegation

A wave of criticism has spread across Italy after a video surfaced on 25 March showing Chen Zhen, a Chinese professor at the Polytechnic University of Milan, coercing a Taiwanese student into changing his city and country of origin on a paper from “Taipei, Taiwan” to “Taipei, China”, writes Kelvin Chen for Taiwan News.

Upon hearing about the incident on Friday 25 March, the Taiwan representative office in Italy sent letters defending the rights of Taiwanese students to Polytechnic University of Milan President Ferruccio Resta, the dean of the university’s school of architecture, and Chen, CNA reported.

Senator Lucio Malan, president of the Italy-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group, retweeted the video, originally shared by Chinese-Australian artist Badiucao on Sunday 27 March. He said he would ask the relevant ministry to explain this incident of “re-education of Taiwan students by Chinese teachers”. Resta explained the same day that after the university had obtained the video, it immediately set up a disciplinary committee to conduct an internal investigation into whether Chen’s behaviour complies with the university’s teaching ethics and code of conduct.
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