DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “Eastman, the music school of the University of Rochester, has decided to remove all Korean students from their Philharmonia Orchestra for their short tour of China. China refused to issue visas for Korean students, forcing Eastman to either remove them or cancel their tour. Eastman has shockingly chosen to go with the former.”

Related: Taylor Swift to Perform in China at Alibaba’s Annual Shopping Gala. “After Beijing’s recent heavy-handed attempts to squash free speech beyond its borders — such as the NBA’s serious travails over a general manager’s single tweet of support for Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, and the erasure of South Park from the Chinese Internet because of a satirical episode — many U.S. politicians have questioned whether the Beijing regime’s global political messaging should be so readily accommodated given its various ongoing human rights abuses.”