According to a new report, a number of U.S. universities still have ties with Confucius Institutes (CI) despite a sharp decline in recent years. The report was authored by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD). This report analyzes CI closures between 2018 and early 2021. First, it evaluates the rationales that U.S. universities provided ...
Universities in Germany are starting to boycott CCP-backed Confucius Institutes. These institutes act as a propaganda vehicle for the communist regime and are being viewed as a threat to national security in the U.S. and European nations. The threat of Confucius Institutes The University of Hamburg in Germany will be terminating its contract with its ...
The U.S administration has designated Beijing-backed Confucius Institutes (CI) as “foreign missions,” stating that the organization is effectively controlled by a foreign government. In the United States, these institutes are managed by the Confucius Institute U.S. Center (CIUS) based in Washington. Stopping the influence of Confucius Institutes With CIUS being classified as a foreign mission, ...
College Democrats of America and the College Republican National Committee recently signed an open letter asking to shut down all Confucius Institutes that are operating on American campuses. Both groups pointed out that the Chinese communists were funding these institutes for their own agendas, making them a threat to educational freedom in America. Shutting down ...
The U.S. Department of Education (DoED) has started an investigation into Harvard and Yale for not reporting the millions of dollars in foreign contracts and foreign money they received over several years. U.S. federal law mandates that universities and colleges report all the contracts and foreign money they receive from foreign sources that are in ...
With American intelligence agencies warning about the academic threat from Confucius Institutes (CI), there has been a trend of American universities ending their partnerships with the Beijing-backed program. The latest to join the bandwagon is the University of Maryland (UMD), which was the first American university to allow a CI on its campus. Closing Confucius ...
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), one of the leading universities of Belgium, has announced its decision to shut down the Confucius Institute operating on its campus. Funded by the Chinese government, the institute has been mired in controversy after reports that its former head professor was conducting spy operations for Beijing. Closing down the institute VUB’s ...
In a bid to expand its influence in the UK, China is manipulating students and universities in the country. This is raising concerns among British lawmakers as to the presence of Chinese students and Beijing-backed institutions in the United Kingdom. Chinese meddling in the UK “At LSE (London School of Economics and Political Sciences) we ...
A report by the UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee (FCO) has revealed large-scale Chinese interference in academic institutions. It criticizes the British government for failing to consider the extent of the threat and not providing enough guidance to the universities on the issue. Chinese interference “The committee highlighted the role of China-funded Confucius Institutes’ officials in ...
The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has decided to remove Confucius Classrooms from its public schools. The decision comes on the heels of worries that the Chinese Communist Party is using these programs to influence children with a pro-communist perspective. No more Confucius Classroom programs Confucius Classroom programs were active in 13 NSW ...
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