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The Confucius Institutes are a global network of 550 (as of 2021) linguistic and cultural educational centers attached to Western schools and universities (and other schools and universities worldwide) to ostensibly teach the Mandarin language and Chinese culture.
House Republicans announced this week that they are working on new anti-Chinese espionage legislation hina for its continued espionage efforts in the United States.
A new, detailed, and thorough report by the National Association of Scholars confirms that not a single one of these [Confucius] "institutes" disappeared; they were just re-branded under a "sister university" arrangement with universities in China, given
Rep. Jim Banks and 56 House Republicans sent a letter to Secretary Lloyd Austin asking about the federal funds going to colleges and universities with ties to the Chinese government.
The Chinese government-run language school Confucius Institutes is reopening centers under new names after nearly all of them were closed. It is keeping ties with universities under its new name even after the U.S. State Department declared it a foreign mission.