The U.S. government has taken several steps in recent years to root out a China-backed program suspected of promoting Chinese Communist Party (CCP) ideology in the U.S. education system, but Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.) says this program has proven elusive. Known as the Confucius Institute, this program is organized under the CCPs Ministry of Education. […]
Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters is raising the alarm about an apparent effort by Chinese Communist Party (CCP) sympathizers to propagandize students in his state. In July, the organization Parents Defending Education (PDE) published a report detailing partnerships various public school boards around the country had entered into with the CCP-aligned Confucius Institute. […]
A U.S. university cutting ties with a China-linked Chinese military-linked institute on its campus. Following an investigation by the House China Select Committee over a $17 million Pentagon grant to the school’s advanced hypersonic research. The panel’s chairman, Mike Gallagher, first sent a letter to Alfred University’s president earlier this month. Questioning how Alfred continues […]
Warming ties between China and Saudi Arabia—which is traditionally a U.S. ally in the Middle East. There, Washington is battling for influence with Beijing and the scale is seemingly tipping in China’s favor. Beijing is opening a Confucius Institute in Saudi Arabia. China touts them as cultural and language centers, but critics say these institutes […]
The UK says its Confucius Institutes won’t be shutting down, after all. The British prime minister promised to ban the programs, but now, he’s changing his mind. The Chinese state-sponsored institutes have already closed in several countries. Beijing bills them as culture and language exchange programs, but they’re widely seen as a tool China uses […]
Chinese state companies are buying up U.S. farmland, part of a strategic process behind the global land grab by the Chinese Communist Party. What is it for? A new 300-acre land purchase near a U.S. Air Force base may give us indications. I also speak with Rachelle Peterson and Ian Oxnevad from the National Association […]
Are the Confucius Institutes in the United States truly closed? A report says some of them are back, but under new names. China’s flood season is getting worse. So far, 85 rivers have risen above flood warning levels. More Chinese banks are having difficulty completing customer withdrawals. Some are even limiting how much money can […]
Voters are headed to the polls in key primary races. We’ll tell you which races have the potential to impact the balance of power in Washington. Tyler Alcorn is a four-tour, Special Forces combat veteran, and he is running for office in the state of Colorado. We ask him why he feels the need to […]
Three teachers from China and their local driver were killed in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, on Tuesday. China’s Foreign Ministry said a fourth Chinese teacher was injured in the blast. At the time of the accident, all four were riding a shuttle bus to the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi.
Germany is now requiring its universities to reevaluate their ties to China’s Confucius Institute. German media on Oct 29 said the country’s education minister Anja Karliczek wrote a letter ordering all universities to review their connection with the Institute.
According to a French report, Confucius Institutes are facing a growing backlash around the world. Billed as educational programs, they are suspected of conducting espionage for the Chinese Communist Party. One of these institutes in France has received public funding, which stirred up controversy.
Senator Marco Rubio tweeted on Thursday, saying the closure of George Washington University’s Confucius Institute is “a long overdue decision.” The institute shuttered at the end of June after years of backlash from students, lawmakers, and government agencies.
Tufts University announced on Wednesday that it is not going to renew its contract with the Confucius Institute after it expires in September this year. The decision was made in response to a 13-week long protest against the controversial educational program. The Confucius Institute (CI) is a nonprofit educational collaboration between Tufts and Beijing Normal […]
Another Biden nominee is getting attention for past remarks on China. Victoria Nuland is a veteran diplomat and nominated for Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, the third-highest post in the State Department. Nuland is a defender of the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government program that disseminates pro-Beijing propaganda on American college campuses.
Hundreds of million-dollar Chinese companies are in severe debt and filing for bankruptcy, due to the economic fallout caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic. Over 300 million Chinese people have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations online. And Slovakia recently passed a law defining the Communist Party as a criminal organization. […]
The College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers AP and SAT exams, said it will end its partnership with a Chinese government agency at the end of the year amid growing concern about the Chinese regime’s influence in the U.S. education system. The decision follows an Oct. 26 letter from seven Republican senators to College […]
