Citing"national interest" concerns, the Department of Defense will no longer fund Chinese-language programs at universities that host Confucius Institutes, likely forcing a number of the controversial centers to close.
Western Kentucky University announced last week it was unable to receive a waiver and had decided to close its Confucius Institute. “Our understanding is that no waivers are being issued,” WKU spokesman Bob Skipper told Newsweek. Children hold American and Chinese flags during a firecracker ceremony and cultural festival to mark the first day of the Lunar New Year in Manhattan’s Chinatown on February 16, 2018. College students will be affected by the closing of Confucius Institutes at their schools after the Pentagon denied funding waivers. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
"The main benefit of closing a Confucius Institute is that it removes a potential threat to academic freedom from campus," Dukalskis said."The CCP has a long and continuing history of censoring academic research, attempting to control classroom instruction and even putting scholars in prison for their research.
A bipartisan report released earlier this year by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations after an eight-month probe highlighted instances of how these issues can evolve into censorship.
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