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U.S. lawmakers want China's Confucius Institutes to register as foreign agents
Reuters ^ | 22 Mar 2018 | Staff

Posted on 03/22/2018 11:37:35 PM PDT by blueplum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three U.S. Republican lawmakers said on Wednesday they wanted China’s Confucius Institute cultural centers in the United States to register as foreign agents, and to require all U.S. universities to disclose major gifts from foreign sources.

Run by the Chinese government, the Confucius Institutes offer language and cultural programs at more than 100 U.S. colleges and universities. They have been criticized as an attempt by Beijing to influence U.S. higher education.

Senators Marco Rubio and Tom Cotton, and Representative Joe Wilson introduced the “Foreign Influence Transparency Act,” which would require the institutes to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, or FARA.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; confuciusinstitute; cotton; rubio
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1 posted on 03/22/2018 11:37:36 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Confucius says, “Man who wears glasses does not make a spectacle of himself”.


2 posted on 03/22/2018 11:40:11 PM PDT by rfp1234 (I have already previewed this composition.)
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To: blueplum

HMMMM starting to get interesting for sure


3 posted on 03/22/2018 11:50:01 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: blueplum

They are not only foreign agents, they are foreign ENEMY agents.


4 posted on 03/22/2018 11:50:52 PM PDT by A strike (Academia is almost as racist as Madison Avenue)
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To: rfp1234

The weak bow before the stronger, the children bow before the parents, the younger bow before older and the fools bow before the wise.


5 posted on 03/22/2018 11:57:31 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: rfp1234

Confucius say “woman who fly airplane upside down have big crack up.”


6 posted on 03/23/2018 12:05:27 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
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To: goldstategop

Christ and Confucius ultimately clash.


7 posted on 03/23/2018 12:43:06 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: GoldenState_Rose

Its a different ethical approach - the harmonious life filled with moral ethics and humane obligations towards family and society.

Confucianism does have its version of the Golden Rule.


8 posted on 03/23/2018 12:59:00 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

Jesus lives. Confucius is dead.

Christianity wins. Happy almost Easter.


9 posted on 03/23/2018 1:00:53 AM PDT by GoldenState_Rose
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To: goldstategop
don't know much about it, but Wikiconfucius say: "From the late 17th century onwards a whole body of literature known as the Han Kitab developed amongst the Hui Muslims of China who infused Islamic thought with Confucianism. Especially the works of Liu Zhi such as Tiānfāng Diǎnlǐ(天方典禮)sought to harmonise Islam with not only Confucianism but also with Daoism and is considered to be one of the crowning achievements of the Chinese Islamic culture.[89] "In the New Culture Movement, Lu Xun criticised Confucianism for shaping Chinese people into the condition they had reached by the late Qing Dynasty: his criticisms are dramatically portrayed in "A Madman's Diary," which implies that Confucian society was cannibalistic. Leftists during the Cultural Revolution described Confucius as the representative of the class of slave owners. In South Korea, there has long been criticism. Some South Koreans believe Confucianism has not contributed to the modernisation of South Korea. For example, South Korean writer Kim Kyong-il wrote an essay[when?] entitled "Confucius Must Die For the Nation to Live" (공자가 죽어야 나라가 산다, gongjaga jug-eoya naraga sanda). Kim said that filial piety is one-sided and blind, and if it continues social problems will continue as government keeps forcing Confucian filial obligations onto families.[96][97]
10 posted on 03/23/2018 1:31:03 AM PDT by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: blueplum

Confucius say, “Man who eat jellybeans fart in Technicolor.”


11 posted on 03/23/2018 2:54:26 AM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: goldstategop

I don’t think there’s much Confucianism about the CCP funded Confucius Institutes - it’s just a name.


12 posted on 03/23/2018 2:54:53 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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To: blueplum

Foreign agents bump for later....


13 posted on 03/23/2018 4:53:54 AM PDT by indthkr
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