The National Association of Scholars (NAS) released a report on Wednesday on the influence of the Confucius Institutes in American colleges and universities and underwritten by the communist government of China.
With more than 100 operating in the U.S., the Confucius Institutes offer for-credit courses in Chinese language and culture that are staffed and funded by China’s Ministry of Education and through the Office of Chinese Languages Council International (Hanban).
In addition, Hanban also operates similarly organized Confucius Classrooms (CCs) at 501 American primary and secondary schools.
The 604 educational outposts of the Confucius Institutes in the U.S. represent a plurality of China’s 1,579 Confucius Institutes and classrooms worldwide..."
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