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 ...
The University of Southern California (USC) has suspended a professor of business communication at the Marshall School of Business (MSB) after he said a Chinese word that apparently sounded like an “n-word” racial slur targeted at blacks. The professor, Greg Patton, has been replaced with another teacher for the course. The controversy about the ‘n-word’ ...
The U.S. educational system is under attack from China and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which is sending spies into institutions to steal high-value knowledge in various fields. Though most espionage activities go undetected and cause huge losses to U.S. research, intelligence agencies have been successful in catching a few such spies red-handed over the ...
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 ...
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