Category: Confucius Institute

Alexandre Trudeau Says Chinese Donation Was Not Interference, Committee Is Wasting Time on Foundation

Alexandre Trudeau told MPs that everything about the donation to the Trudeau Foundation from two businessmen affiliated with the Chinese regime a few years ago was legitimate and didn’t constitute any attempt to influence his brother, who would later become prime minister. “Frankly, this is a waste of time because there is not a foreign…


House Republicans Introduce Bill to Combat Foreign Espionage, Influence on College Campuses

As threats from foreign influences in the U.S. educational system have started to receive national attention, two U.S. representatives introduced a House bill last week that would counter espionage and influence campaigns on American colleges and universities by foreign entities such as the Chinese Communist Party. Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.), announced the Stop Higher Education…


Will the Opus Dei School Investigation Smear the Liberal Party?

Commentary In political commentator James Morrow’s words, the ABC Four Corners program that aired on Jan. 30 smacks of a “smear campaign” against a group of Opus Dei Catholic schools and New South Wales (NSW) Premier Dominic Perrottet ahead of the upcoming March state election. Several NSW Liberal MPs, including Perrottet, are alumni of these…


Examining China’s New Confucius Institutes

Commentary Hanban, an organization closely affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), established the Confucius Institute program in 2004. Ostensibly, the program was created to help promote the Chinese language and culture on a global scale. Today, rather incredibly, there are 525 of these institutes in 146 different countries and regions. Accused of being little…


Some Canadian Institutions Continue to Host China’s Confucius Institute Despite Latest Revelations

Some Canadian educational institutions continue to host Confucius Institutes (CI) despite a growing trend in North America and other parts of the world in which schools and universities are cutting ties with the program, which is funded and controlled by the Chinese regime. The Epoch Times recently emailed nine institutions whose websites indicate they are…


Canada Needs to Accept China ‘Believes It Is at War With Us’: NB MLA

Canada should accept and prepare for the scenario that “China believes it is at war with us,” New Brunswick MLA Dominic Cardy says. Speaking at a book launch event in Toronto on Nov. 25, the former N.B. education minister warned that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is taking an adversarial stance against Canada and Western democracies,…


Beijing Replaces Discredited Confucius Institutes With Luban Workshop

China’s communist regime has set up technical training centers–under the umbrella of the so-called Luban Workshop—in dozens of countries in recent years, replacing its overseas propaganda organization, the Confucius Institute. Experts have warned that Luban Workshop is the regime’s new way of covertly exporting its ideology. The first Luban Workshop center was established in Thailand…


New Brunswick Minister Says Province Cutting Ties With Accredited Schools in China, Citing Concerns With Beijing Regime

With Beijing’s Confucius Institutes removed from New Brunswick’s public schools, the province is now cutting ties with its accredited schools in China that do not teach Canadian values, says Dominic Cardy, the province’s education minister. “I have a serious problem with supporting schools operated by or influenced by the government in Beijing for all the…


GOPs Press Defense Secretary on Federal Funds to Colleges Tied to Beijing

A group of Republican lawmakers is pushing Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on federal funds flowing to U.S. universities with ties to Beijing. Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-Ind.) and 56 of his GOP colleagues sent a letter to Austin on July 25, asking the secretary why federal funds were going to schools that are…


Republican Lawmakers Seek to Crack Down on Beijing’s ‘Trojan Horse’ Activities in US Universities

A Republican congressman and his colleagues are hoping to crack down on the Chinese Communist Party’s “trojan horse” activities taking place in U.S. universities. Rep. August Pfluger (R-Texas) recently introduced H.R.7779, which proposes “to establish Department of Homeland Security funding restrictions on institutions of higher education that have a relationship with Confucius Institutes.” There are currently…