Posted on 05/15/2020 5:36:56 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Leading college Republicans and Democrats have teamed up to establish a non-profit to combat Chinese government influence on American campuses.
In its first official act, the Athenai Institute released a letter on Wednesday calling for the closure of Confucius institutes at U.S. colleges and universities, as well as for “full and public disclosure of all ties, both financial and academic, between centers of higher learning and all Chinese state agencies and proxies.”
The letter has been signed by the leadership of both the College Republican National Committee and the College Democrats of America, as well as numerous human rights groups committed to protecting Uighur and Tibetan minorities from persecution in China
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Holy crap.
Better duck, the flying pigs will get you.
Its a waste of time.
How about instead combatting leftist influence? Pick an easy-to-understand issue. voting fraud and the sanctity of elections, for example.
that’s a FAR more serious threat to the Republic.
Yeah, telling kids to stop eating their crack candy after being addicted for 20 years.... Pretty please, please stop it...
If you want action, cut their funding, then tell them what you want them to do in order to get the funding back.
Power of the purse.
It's true, they are trying to combat a Chinese Communist Party that is - on the whole - considerably less collectivist in their thinking than American university professors. :)
why would edu communists not want to be influenced by chinese communists?
Exactly
That directive also needs to be addressed to the parent company called : The United Nations .
This is just but one occasion of world-wide irresponsibility, and the pandemic got our attention.
Straighten up, fly right,.. or get the F#%#k out of the US !
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