Illustrating the wide range of U.S. grievances with China, a Senate committee released a report Wednesday highly critical of the Beijing-funded Confucius Institute, which operates centers at about 100 American universities.
Students relax on the campus of UC Santa Barbara, one of seven universities in California that operate a China-funded Confucius Institute. Wednesday highly critical of the Beijing-funded Confucius Institute, which operates centers at about 100 American universities.
Investigators said that the United States had attempted to set up similar programs at Chinese campuses. But U.S. funding for those American Cultural Centers ended last fall, the report said, after at least 80 episodes of “active interference by the Chinese government” that prevented the opening or functioning of some of the 29 centers planned by the State Department.
The Confucius Institute “is not controlled by China, but is controlled by American universities and is part of American universities,” said the director, Gao Qing. The Confucius program has drawn increasing suspicion among American officials, in part because the centers are soft-power instruments of Beijing. Separately,to China’s aggressive moves to strengthen its high-tech firms, military capabilities and political influence around the world.
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