In August last year, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the Confucius Institute “an entity advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign” on American universities. In response, China criticized Pompeo’s statement as “demonizing and stigmatizing the normal operation of China-U.S. cooperation projects.” An exclusive report by Campus Reform, America’s leading college news website, detailed a recent investigation into China’s “normal operation” in American classrooms. Through public records requests in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, Campus Reform obtained 32 universities’ contracts with the Confucius Institute Headquarters. In several documents, Beijing dictated control over the curriculum taught within the Confucius Institute. For instance, the contract between the University of Toledo and Hanban, the Confucius Institute Headquarters in China, states that “The Institute must accept the assessment of [Hanban] on the teaching quality.” Hanban is an agency under the Chinese regime’s education ministry, which is known to severely …