Posted on 12/17/2018 7:45:11 AM PST by reaganaut1
North Carolina State University is the latest university to announce plans to close its Confucius Institute. Ten American colleges and universities have parted ways with these Chinese government-funded centers, seven of them in the last 14 months.
The Chinese government funds some 500 Confucius Institutes at colleges and universities around the world, and 107 in the United States. Each one comes with teachers and textbooks chosen and paid for by the Chinese government, along with about $100,000 in annual operating funds.
In exchange, China gains a key opportunity to shape the minds of college students and an easy way to monitor American scholars of China and Chinese students studying abroad. FBI director Christopher Wray has also testified to evidence of espionage in Confucius Institutes.
Confucius Institutes have become the subject of increasing national scrutiny in the last year—in large part because of growing reports that China uses Confucius Institutes to stifle academic freedom. They also present a conveniently rosy picture of China that leaves out the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the 1 million Uyghurs now held in concentration camps, and the authoritarian grip of the Chinese Communist Party. (My own report, Outsourced to China, examines the problems with Confucius Institutes in detail.)
In August, President Trump signed into law restrictions on Pentagon funding to universities that have Confucius Institutes. Several other bills, including the Foreign Influence Transparency Act (sponsored by Senators Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton and Representative Joe Wilson) and the Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act (sponsored by Senator Ted Cruz and Representative Francis Rooney), would also address Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes have come up in multiple Congressional hearings.
Now, colleges and universities are waking up to the fact that they may have permitted the Chinese government to purchase a piece of their curriculum
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The Chinese Commies are just gonna have to pay more to keep spying in American Progressive Socialist "higher" education.
Close them all. The are part of the Chinese Communist Party control and influence structure in the US.
I hope all of these “institutes” close. They can next go after the Saudi funded islamo-fascist ones across America. We need to ENSURE that Trump wins reelection!
Confucius say:
Confucius ask: How do trust a man who say - It is ok to lie as long as it furthers my religion?
Finally America is beginning to awaken. Thank you PDJT!
My alma mater...oh well...perhaps they can consult fortune cookies.
They also have a huge mosque nearby. Ugh.
Are these where they come up with all the “Confucius says” jokes?
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