Current Events > China has been infiltrating U.S. college campuses with Communist propaganda

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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/16/how-china-infiltrated-us-classrooms-216327

Last year, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte made an announcement to great fanfare: The university would soon open a branch of the Confucius Institute, the Chinese government-funded educational institutions that teach Chinese language, culture and history.
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But the Confucius Institutes goals are a little less wholesome and edifying than they soundand this is by the Chinese governments own account. A 2011 speech by a standing member of the Politburo in Beijing laid out the case: The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for expanding our culture abroad, Li Changchun said. It has made an important contribution toward improving our soft power. The Confucius brand has a natural attractiveness. Using the excuse of teaching Chinese language, everything looks reasonable and logical.

Li, it now seems, was right to exult. More than a decade after they were created, Confucius Institutes have sprouted up at more than 500 college campuses worldwide, with more than 100 of them in the United Statesincluding at The George Washington University, the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. Overseen by a branch of the Chinese Ministry of Education known colloquially as Hanban, the institutes are part of a broader propaganda initiative that the Chinese government is pumping an estimated $10 billion into annually, and they have only been bolstered by growing interest in China among American college students.

Yet along with their growth have come consistent questions about whether the institutes belong on campuses that profess to promote free inquiry. Confucius Institutes teach a very particular, Beijing-approved version of Chinese culture and history: one that ignores concerns over human rights, for example, and teaches that Taiwan and Tibet indisputably belong to Mainland China. Take it from the aforementioned Li, who also said in 2009 that Confucius Institutes are an important part of Chinas overseas propaganda set-up. Critics also charge that the centers have led to a climate of self-censorship on campuses that play host to them.

Despite years of these critiquesincluding a recent outcry at the University of Massachusetts at Boston and the shuttering of Confucius Institutes at two of the nations top research universitiestheyre still growing in number in the United States, albeit at a slower clip than a few years ago. Several opened on American campuses last year. And vanishingly few schools have rethought the institutes and closed them, suggesting that once theyre implanted, theyre entrenched. At several campuses, theyre actually expanding their footprints with bigger facilities and new courses. I contacted more than a half-dozen Confucius Institutes, and several officials said in interviews that theyre not looking back. (Others declined to comment or simply ignored me, further suggesting a commitment to keeping the Institutes going. The Chinese Embassy in Washington also did not respond to a request to comment by publication time.)

That so many universities have welcomed the Confucius Institute with open arms points to another disturbing trend in American higher education: an alarming willingness to accept money at the expense of principles that universities are ostensibly devoted to upholding. At a time when universities are as willing as ever to shield their charges from controversial viewpoints, some nonetheless welcome foreign, communist propagandaif the price is right.

For the right price, of course.

And yeah, even though the title sounds like a conspiracy theory, this is a legit article in Politico.
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Good
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Wow who would've guessed.
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Fully automated gay space communism
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yes. geopolitical rivals are starting to realize America's greatest strength is it's weakness.

all part of the pran
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josifrees posted...

Good

Evidence that propaganda has been effective.
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Well according to your fellow Trump thumper Mal-Fett China isn't Communist.
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Hope i dont get put in a concentration camp anytime soon
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i always wondered how the hell china is considered communist, they seem to be more capitalist than the US lol
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Romulox28 posted...

i always wondered how the hell china is considered communist, they seem to be more capitalist than the US lol

Because they have only one party in control of the country and it is still called the communist party.
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Two_Dee posted...

Hope i dont get put in a concentration camp anytime soon

Arent you the guy who posts about weird foods and hippie herbs and remedies? If so, I can see why us MAGA people wont trust you. Imagine there is a party and alpha males like the_admiral are shooting everclear and making America great again and you show up with some patchoulli herb tea and ginseng roots to chew, like wtf bro?

Take your meds ROD.
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Awesome posted...

all part of the pran

Lol
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ilovu posted...

yes. geopolitical rivals are starting to realize America's greatest strength is it's weakness.

Your faith in your friends is yours
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EducatedGuy posted...

Two_Dee posted...

Hope i dont get put in a concentration camp anytime soon

Arent you the guy who posts about weird foods and hippie herbs and remedies? If so, I can see why us MAGA people wont trust you. Imagine there is a party and alpha males like the_admiral are shooting everclear and making America great again and you show up with some patchoulli herb tea and ginseng roots to chew, like wtf bro?

ROD pls
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US has been brainwashing you with capitalist propaganda for how long now
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Waluigi7 posted...

Take your meds ROD.

Lovefist alt? And to ignore you go too. Communists like you are a waste of time.

Time to activate Liberty Prime.
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I'm surprised that you aren't questioning your source, Admiral.
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EducatedGuy posted...

Two_Dee posted...

Hope i dont get put in a concentration camp anytime soon

Arent you the guy who posts about weird foods and hippie herbs and remedies? If so, I can see why us MAGA people wont trust you. Imagine there is a party and alpha males like the_admiral are shooting everclear and making America great again and you show up with some patchoulli herb tea and ginseng roots to chew, like wtf bro?

Yeah. My dick is tiny as well
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"And this is why I shouldn't believe in science. The end."
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Kineth posted...

I'm surprised that you aren't questioning your source, Admiral.

Lol I kind of am, too. I guess it's more to shut down opposition/detractors?
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COVxy posted...

"And this is why I shouldn't believe in science. The end."

science is Marxist propaganda

CE's response to literal propaganda is pretty interesting so far.
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Democracy is non-negotiable.
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CrimsonRage posted...

MrPeppers posted...

Kineth posted...

I'm surprised that you aren't questioning your source, Admiral.

Lol I kind of am, too. I guess it's more to shut down opposition/detractors?

whose the kawaii girl in your avatar?

The Admiral posted...

an alarming willingness to accept money at the expense of principles

pfft
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Everyone wants to irradiate western society lol

Good luck with that.
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This explains the uptick in insanely stupid Communist rhetoric lately.
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Vyrulisse posted...

Time to activate Liberty Prime.

Chairman Cheng will fail!
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Kim Kusanagi posted...

ilovu posted...

yes. geopolitical rivals are starting to realize America's greatest strength is it's weakness.

Your faith in your friends is yours

This made me smile
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Bandit_Keith posted...

This explains the uptick in insanely stupid Communist rhetoric lately.

With a resounding 5% of us institutions having had this program, the chances of you having talked to anyone actually enrolled in it are pretty damn low.
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HypnoCoosh posted...

Everyone wants to irradiate western society lol

Good luck with that.

irradiate? o_o
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This seems less about communism as an economic theory than about the cultural and geopolitical agenda of China's government. It is capital-C Communist in the sense that it is the doctrine of China's Communist Party, but there's nothing in this article to suggest they're feeding college students Marx.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

HypnoCoosh posted...

Everyone wants to irradiate western society lol

Good luck with that.

irradiate? o_o

lol

Well that too :)
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creativerealms posted...

Well according to your fellow Trump thumper Mal-Fett China isn't Communist.

@Mal_Fet

Is China a Communist country?
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I wonder what CE's reaction to this would be if it was Russia instead of China.
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COVxy posted...

With a resounding 5% of us institutions having had this program, the chances of you having talked to anyone actually enrolled in it are pretty damn low.

First of all, i know plenty of people that went to U of M, because I live here. But even if I didn't, you wouldn't have to to directly talk to someone who went to one of these facilities.

Someone goes to one, talks to their friends about it things they've "learned". Maybe one or two of those friends are intrigued and starts reading Communist-friendly literature.

or

Someone goes to one, is inspired to start a blog or vlog, getting many people interested. They amass a small but loyal following.

It can happen many ways.
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interesting, also

Antifar posted...

This seems less about communism as an economic theory than about the cultural and geopolitical agenda of China's government. It is capital-C Communist in the sense that it is the doctrine of China's Communist Party, but there's nothing in this article to suggest they're feeding college students Marx.

good point
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Bandit_Keith posted...

First of all, i know plenty of people that went to U of M, because I live here.

Any of them enrolled in this program?
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COVxy posted...

Bandit_Keith posted...

First of all, i know plenty of people that went to U of M, because I live here.

Any of them enrolled in this program?

I can ask next time I encounter one.
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it's obvious that our great foreign adversaries (russia, china) have realized that a destabilized america is a huge advantage to them and will continue to flood our media with propaganda intended to divide and turn the populace against each other. people who continue to be fooled by it are just burying their head in the sand at this point.

The issue isn't "Communist" propaganda, it's pro-China propaganda.

Also, from the article: "But those conditions could return: President Donald Trumps proposed 2018 budget would also severely slash funding for universities, likely pushing more schools to outsource programs."

China is making headway at universities by offering cheap labor and services, just like they do with everything else. But that fits in with our capitalist society, does it not?
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Antifar posted...

This seems less about communism as an economic theory than about the cultural and geopolitical agenda of China's government. It is capital-C Communist in the sense that it is the doctrine of China's Communist Party, but there's nothing in this article to suggest they're feeding college students Marx.

but the way TC and other Conservatives word the headline seems like that's the exact message they're trying to spread.

this sounds like FAKE NEWS
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Antifar posted...

This seems less about communism as an economic theory than about the cultural and geopolitical agenda of China's government. It is capital-C Communist in the sense that it is the doctrine of China's Communist Party, but there's nothing in this article to suggest they're feeding college students Marx.

China funding pro-Chinese propaganda is something that I, as someone from Hong Kong, am not surprised by.
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