U.S. Universities Help Chinese Dictatorship Spread Propaganda

Allgov -  Tuesday, November 05, 2013

American universities of all sizes and pedigree have been helping China spread its propaganda to college students through Chinese-government-funded programs known as Confucius Institutes (CIs).
Since 2004, China has funded CIs around the world, including throughout the United States’ system of higher education. The institutes, which provide Chinese language and cultural studies, can be found at prestigious private schools like Stanford and the University of Chicago and at public colleges like San Diego State, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Middle Tennessee State.
Why are so many four-year institutions accepting CIs?
Money.
China subsidizes the programs, and in return, the Chinese government dictates what can—and cannot—be taught at the CIs.
At the University of Chicago’s CI, school officials don’t even dare hang a photo of the Dalai Lama, whom the Chinese government considers a threat because of his Tibetan independence views.
“CIs are managed by a foreign government, and accordingly are responsive to its politics,” Marshall Sahlins wrote at The Nation.

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