Cross-Strait relations
The president of the EACS ordered 500 copies of the deleted pages to be distributed to attendees and issued a report on the incident. The U.S. online university site [[Inside Higher Ed]] quoted [[Marshall Sahlins]], professor emeritus at the [[University of Chicago]] and a leading critic of the Confucius Institutes, who said that this incident illustrated the Confucius Institutes provision that programming they fund must abide by Chinese laws, including those restricting speech; "Moreover they're going to enforce them the way they do in China, which is not so much by going to court... but simply by fiat." Taiwan's cabinet-level [[Mainland Affairs Council]] issued a reproach over the censorship incident, saying, "The mainland should deal with Taiwan's participation in activities on international occasions pragmatically. If there is no respect for each other, the development of [[Cross-Strait relations|cross-strait relations]] will be seriously hurt."