Skip to main content

Madison360: Regent Loftus wants UW to ‘step back’ on China

Tom Loftus turned to international affairs in a commencement speech Friday. Loftus, a member of the UW Board of Regents, suggested that UW institutions reconsider their increasing involvement with China because of that country?s human rights record. Loftus, a former ambassador to Norway and former speaker of the state Assembly, made the comments to graduates at UW-Richland.