BEIJING: A US crackdown on Confucius Institutes demonises and stigmatises the normal functioning of the programme, China's foreign ministry said ...
"The United States wants to ensure that students on US campuses have access to Chinese language and cultural offerings free from the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies," he said.
Last year, the US State and Education Departments promised stricter monitoring of the institutes, which have been criticised in Congress and elsewhere as de facto propaganda arms of China's Communist government. David Stilwell, the top US diplomat for East Asia, told a briefing the dozens of Confucius Institutes in the United States were not being kicked out, but said US universities should take a"hard look" at what they were doing on campus.READ: US says Beijing has 'eviscerated' Hong Kong freedoms
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