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) infiltration and influence in the UK.
Roger Garside, associate fellow at foreign policy and national security think tank Henry Jackson Society (HJS), said there are “strong grounds” for believing that Sunak will deal with the Confucius Institutes.
The experts suggest the time is ripe for measures to tackle the CCP-backed language centers following a sea change in the Western governments’ China strategies….