Category: Confucius institutes

MPs Will Back Promise to Shut Confucius Institutes, UK’s China Watchers Tell Sunak

The UK’s new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has the support of parliament if he intends to deliver his campaign promise to close Confucius Institutes, British China observers said on Tuesday. Benedict Rogers, co-founder of the Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, told The Epoch Times that Sunak will “inevitably” have to deal with the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP)…


Confucius Institutes Threaten UK’s Capacity to Understand China: Report Says

Confucius Institutes (CI) in British Universities are damaging the UK’s understanding of China, a report said on Wednesday. The report (pdf), published by foreign policy and national security think tank Henry Jackson Society (HJS), said that out of the 3o CIs in the UK only four were found to be operating within their remit of “language and…


7 Chinese Companies Added to US Export Blacklist

Seven more Chinese companies are added to the U.S. exports blacklist—most of them in the aerospace sector. A former Apple engineer is pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets. Waiting for him is up to a decade of jail time. An urgent appeal for help: A daughter in New York is afraid for her father’s life…


Confucius Institutes 2.0: Chinese Government Money Speaks Loudly

Originally published by Gatestone Institute Commentary In the book “Red Handed,” we meet a remarkable young man named Nathan Law, the Chinese-born, Hong Kong-raised leader of a pro-democracy effort called the “Umbrella Movement,” which protested Beijing’s crackdowns on freedom in Hong Kong. His efforts were brutally crushed by the Chinese government and Nathan Law went to…


UK Conservative Leadership Contenders Clash Over China and Taxes in BBC Debate

The two remaining candidates in the race to become Conservative Party leader and UK prime minister—Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and former chancellor Rishi Sunak—have traded blows over policies regarding China and taxation in a TV debate hosted by the BBC. While the tax and economic policy was the focus of the earlier stages of the…


Chinese Applicants to UK Universities up 60 Percent in 3 Years, Raising Fears of Over-Reliance

The number of Chinese applicants to British universities has risen by almost 60 percent in three years to a record 31,400, raising fears that UK institutions have become overly reliant on China. The number of Chinese applicants is over 8,000 more than the number of applications from all 27 countries of the European Union, which…


Analysis: China Buying US Farmland; What Happens After Confucius Institutes Close in the US

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…


Democrats Fail to Counter Chinese Regime Challenges on American Higher Education: Republican Lawmakers

As China reportedly maintains its enduring influence on American higher education by seeking to rebrand its Confucius Institutes (CI) in U.S. universities, Democrats have still refused to get tougher on the regime to counter its further infiltration, according to Republican lawmakers. “With Joe Biden in the White House, we’re seeing … their Confucius Institute and…


British MPs Seek to Ban China’s Confucius Institutes

China’s beleaguered Confucius Institutes have come under renewed pressure from British MPs who are calling for new laws to ban them from the UK. Back bench policymakers from the main political parties tabled an amendment to the Higher Education Bill on Wednesday that would outlaw the Chinese regime-funded institutes if they are seen to curb…


Taiwan’s Chinese Language Centers Expand as More Countries Close China’s Confucius Institutes

China’s ruling communist party went to great lengths to establish its network of Confucius Institutes across college campuses around the world. But many countries have since withdrawn their partnerships having discovered that these institutes are a propagandized extension of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—used simply as a means to promote the party’s communist philosophy. As…