Posted on 01/27/2023 1:29:56 PM PST by MtnClimber
Congressional Republicans and Asia policy experts are sounding the alarm over the Chinese Communist Party’s influence on K-12 education as well as colleges in America through what are called Confucius Classrooms and Confucius Institutes.
“Confucius Institutes and Classrooms allow the Chinese Communist Party to wield influence throughout the American education system, projecting the CCP’s preferred message in the United States,” Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., chairman of a new House select committee on China, told The Daily Signal in an email.
The full name of the panel created Jan. 10 by Republican leadership is the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party.
“The Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party will fight back against the malign influence of the CCP wherever it impacts American interests and national security, whether that be in the private sector or in the classroom,” Gallagher said.
Confucius Institutes, founded in 2004, are China-funded “cultural” centers that operate on college campuses. In the past few years, these centers have come under increased scrutiny as operations of Chinese state influence.
“For years, the Chinese Communist Party has been using Confucius Institutes as a Trojan horse to push their propaganda and revisionist history in American universities. Their goal is to control what we see, hear, and think about China,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn, who introduced related legislation called the Transparency for Confucius Institutes Act in 2021, told The Daily Signal in an email.
“No foreign government should have the ability to influence American education—especially a rogue regime that commits egregious human rights violations and consistently undermines our democracy. Confucius Institutes, in any form, must be erased from U.S. society immediately,” Blackburn said.
An estimated 500 K-12 schools in the U.S. have had Confucius Classrooms, according to a National Association of Scholars report, “After Confucius Institutes: China’s Enduring Influence on American Higher Education.”
“Confucius Classrooms are essentially the K-12 parallel to Confucius Institutes, but they’re a lot less well documented. In many cases, they have survived even when the Confucius Institutes they were attached to have closed, which is particularly interesting,” John Metz, president of the Athenai Institute, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.
The Athenai Institute describes itself as a nonpartisan, student-founded organization focused on removing the influence of the Chinese Communist Party from American college campuses.
“A number of them were established alongside or sort of in conjunction with the Asia Society,” Metz said of Confucius Classrooms. “But in January 2022, they announced that they were discontinuing their formal affiliation with Hanban.”
Hanban, also known as Confucius Institute Headquarters, changed its name in July 2020 to the Center for Language Education and Cooperation, Fox News reported. The center is part of the Chinese Ministry of Education.
“But a lot of those Confucius Classrooms remain, and in a nutshell, we see Confucius Classrooms as yet another way that the CCP tries to exercise control over, really, the way Americans think about China,” Metz told The Daily Signal.....
When will Americans learn you cannot dance with the devil?
Most leftists are all in. Most Republicans are clueless.
The PRC isess evil than the normal curriculum.
Nothing new here.
Communist Goals
Congressional Record—Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
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https://www.marxists.org/subject/art/literature/children/ref/gov/gov1.html
Are there Lincoln Institutes at Chinese Universities? Didn’t think so. Why don’t free countries strategize like this?
The homosexuals, The radical left, And the racist have already infiltrated. why not the Chinese?
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TikTok tranny in the nanny states (skools).
What propaganda or subversion is China promoting exactly?
polyamory and gay sex?
tranny operations for 14 year olds?
Critical Race Theory?
The male patriarchy?
the need to eliminate all oil and gas?
You need to eat bugs?
Tell me, is China is responsible for this?
The Chinese propaganda is that the liberal wish list you posted is representative of what “liberal democracy” stands for in the year 2023.
It’s pretty much what the Russians, Islamists, etc also say. And it’s pretty much true.
The best propaganda is the truth.
Where the “lies” start is when the Chinese, Russians, or Islamists say that their way is better.
But, their pointing out that the wish list is degenerate is spot on.
Almost as bad as democrats targeting them.
You listed a number of sexual perversions. It is exactly this type of material that Soviet Russia used to infiltrate the education systems of the Eastern European countries in order to take them over as Soviet satellites. Russian communist agents also poured this toxic stew into this country for decades since the early 1900s until the present time, because it is destabilizing to a strong family system that does not bow to big government.
What makes you think Chinese communists would not do the same? By destroying Western morality, communists accomplish two goals:
1) when they diminish our morale, it makes it easier for them and their military to despise us as "the enemy", and eases their consciences about wanting to destroy our religion and our nation; and2) when they focus their enemy's mind on self-gratifying idle pleasures or pathological narcissim like fornication, abortion or LGBT, they weaken their enemy's will to defend themselves, because of weakened attachment to religion, country, home, family, spouses or children.
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