Four Cornell College instructors from Iowa attacked in China’s Jilin | EUROtoday

“We learned that on the morning of June 10, four foreign teachers from Beihua University … were attacked when touring the city’s Beishan Park,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian informed reporters Tuesday. “All of the injured were rushed to hospital … none of them are in a critical condition.”

Chinese police consider the occasion to be an “isolated incident,” mentioned Lin, including that “cultural and people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States serve the common interests of both sides, and have been positively supported by various sectors of the two countries.”

“China is widely considered one of the safest countries in the world,” he mentioned.

Cornell College President Jonathan Brand informed the AP the instructors had been attacked whereas with a college member from Beihua.

Details on the 4 instructors’ identities and accidents haven’t been publicly launched. Cornell College, a personal school in Mount Vernon, Iowa, mentioned it was nonetheless gathering details about the incident.

Mainstream information retailers in China didn’t seem to cowl the information, however social media posts referencing “Jilin” and “Jilin Beishan Park” had been among the many prime trending matters on the microblogging web site Weibo on Tuesday and posts with the hashtag “Jilin Beishan Park” had over 4 million views.

Relations between Beijing and Washington stay strained, with tensions over commerce and safety within the Indo-Pacific.

Shibani Mahtani and Pei-Lin Wu contributed to this report.