Knife Attack on US Instructors in China Highlights Strained Relations

Four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were attacked with a knife in a Beihua University park in China. The incident's cause and the instructors' injuries are unclear. The attack underscores ongoing US-China tensions, and news of the incident was suppressed in China.

In a shocking development, four instructors from Cornell College in Iowa were assaulted in a public park in northeastern China's Beihua University, according to officials from the US school and the State Department.

There has been no immediate reaction from Chinese authorities, as news on this incident, which occurred on Monday, remains scarce.

Cornell College President Jonathan Brand noted that the instructors were with a faculty member from Beihua at the time of the attack in Jilin, an industrial city.