{"id":150680,"date":"2026-05-01T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150680"},"modified":"2026-05-01T11:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T11:30:08","slug":"could-chinese-mathematicians-tip-the-balance-in-a-us-conference-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=150680","title":{"rendered":"Could Chinese mathematicians tip the balance in a  US conference boycott?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese boycott of the \u201cWorld Cup of mathematics\u201d this year could be decisive, according to a co-organiser of a petition calling for the event to be moved out of the United States this year.<br \/>\nIla Varma, a University of Toronto mathematician and boycott co-organiser, said the country was \u201cuniquely situated\u201d to act \u2013 both as a target of US restrictions and as a major scientific powerhouse.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Chinese government does not apply sanctions to US universities the way the US government does to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3351934\/could-chinese-mathematicians-tip-balance-us-conference-boycott?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA Chinese boycott of the \u201cWorld Cup of mathematics\u201d this year could be decisive, according to a co-organiser of a petition calling for the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}