Chinese Infiltration in American Schools
In April of 2017, Rachelle Peterson of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) published an in-depth study titled "Outsourced to China: Confucius Institutes and Soft Power in American Higher Education." Her findings reveal China's Trojan horse under the guise of intellectual sharing.
The Confucius Institutes are funded through an agency called the Hanban, which has direct ties to the Chinese government, thus ensuring that China gets to weigh in on topics. There is outright suppression on certain subjects – e.g., praising the Dali Lama, the status of Taiwan, and the persecution of members of Falun Gong.
With "China footing the bill, critics say Confucius Institutes are ready-made platforms for … promoting an overly rosy image of China while discouraging discussion of the 'three Ts': Tibet, Taiwan and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre." In fact,"[t]he Chinese director of one Institute explained that if a student asked about Tiananmen Square, she would 'show a picture and point out the beautiful architecture.'"
In 2009, Li Changchun, then the head of propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party, called Confucius Institutes "an important part of China's overseas propaganda set-up."
Here's how it works. China makes a generous financial offer, with the Hanban paying and screening teachers, providing thousands of free government-approved textbooks and a general financial operating support of around $100,000 a year.
While American universities receive much desired funding for programs, "China gets an opportunity to mold the way the next generation of Americans thinks about China." Peterson explains that "China is spending an enormous amount of money trying to build goodwill overseas by building schools[.]"
Many nations send teachers abroad as a form of cultural and linguistic diplomacy – e.g., the Alliance Française for French – but there is a distinct difference with the Chinese schools.
Having begun in 2004, there are now 513 of these Confucius classrooms worldwide in addition to 1,074 located in primary and secondary schools.
On Mark Levin's television show, Life, Liberty and Levin, which airs every Sunday evening, Levin recently hosted author Michael Pillsbury. His book The Hundred Year Marathon documents China's theft of American technology over the past 40 years. At point 22:00-25:48 on the YouTube video, Pillsbury highlights the intrusion of 300,000 Chinese students into American schools of higher learning and explains "the strings attached." Anyone deemed a dissident or defector is banned from speaking as a consequence of agreements that were signed by the hosting school and China.
Thus, "one of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling [China's] rise – and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us as the world's leading superpower."
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