Target to close all Confucius Institutes at America universities by the end of this year, Pompeo: China’s challenges are different from those during the Cold War

Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, stated in an interview on Tuesday local time (1st September), hoping that all Confucius Institutes at America universities can be closed before the end of this year, and said “I believe everyone can see the risks that related with China”.

In an interview with the Fox Business News, Pompeo stated that the Confucius Institutes which sponsored by the Chinese government are trying to recruit spies and collaborators from America universities, and believed that the universities should be aware of this problem. He said frankly, “I hope in the end of this year, we can close them all”. The US State Department announced in mid-August, that the Confucius Institutes to be registered as ‘Foreign Mission’. Pompeo described such organisation as ‘an entity that promotes Beijing’s global propaganda and vicious influence’. David Stilwell, the Chief Diplomat of the East Coast region, also asked those universities to ‘carefully’ understand what the Confucius Institutes have done.

The Sino-US relation has become increasingly tense, but when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended the event of the French Institutes of International Relations few days ago, he had stated that ‘China never want a new Cold War’, and thought that “it is impossible to have a ‘new cold war’, to divide the world into two or three parties” in the era of globalization. In the interview that Pompeo had spoken with the Fox Business News, he responded that the Cold War analogy has a certain significance, but emphasized that the challenges from China are a bit different now, and US is also in face of economic challenge.

Pompeo pointed out that in response to the challenges, the Trump government has already taken various actions to limit the Huawei and other Chinese companies, and will see more actions and new announcements in the coming days. He said, “I hope in the coming days and weeks, I will see the US responding these challenges seriously, and all of this are for the sake of America’s economic benefits”.

Source from: Standnews #Sep02

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A Chinese Language Instructor from the Confucius Institute Dies After Child Pornography Investigations

A Chinese language instructor at the Confucius Institute of Webster University in Saint Louis, United States died on the morning of October 7, 2020. A day before that, the police and the FBI searched his house concerning a case of child pornography.

Source: Stand News #Oct11
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US media: A Chinese Representative of the Confucius Institute in an U.S. University, accursed of child pornography, died after police and FBI searched his home.

U.S. St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported in on Friday (Oct 9) that Liu Qiang, a representative of the Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) at Webster University's Confucius Institute, died after police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided his house in connection with a child pornography case on October 6. BLCU said it received a message from Webster University's Confucius Institute that the teacher had died in the morning October 7.

Liu had served as a representative of the BLCU and the Chinese dean of the Confucius Institute at Webster University since January 2019. According to St. Louis Post-Dispatch's report, the spokesperson for the university said in e-mail, that the school learned of Liu’s death from the police on the 7th of October. The report quoted St Louis police, that police and the FBI searched Qiang's apartment on Tuesday (October 6) evening amid a child pornography investigation. Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU) did not response to the newspaper's email inquiry .

Source: Stand News #Oct11

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Beijing used influence over B.C. schools and Confucius Institute to push its agenda and keep tabs on Canadian politics

The Confucius Institute primarily delivers extracurricular Mandarin instruction and cultural programming, but critics see it as a source of pro-China propaganda. Concerns about Chinese government influence have prompted other Canadian school districts to abandon Confucius offerings, including the Toronto District School Board in 2014 and New Brunswick by 2022.

According to documents obtained by The Globe and Mailg, activities by the institute go beyond the language program. The program’s administrators in China requested reports on the “external environment” – including politics and diplomacy – as well as attitudes toward the institute among local government and community leaders.

Source: the Globe and Mail #Oct08

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-beijing-used-influence-over-bc-schools-to-push-its-agenda-and-keep/

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Many of Confucius Institute US Center's directors are #CCP members, the previous administration tried to check their influence in #American schools, but #Biden said they're welcome :D Is this part of his "strategic patience" with #China?
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GOOD MOVE! Canberra needs to continue to step out China’s influence throughout the country, such as Confucius institutes in public schools and sellout of key national industries.
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