Democrats Fail to Counter Chinese Regime Challenges on American Higher Education: Republican Lawmakers

A view of the Confucius Institute building on the Troy University campus in Troy, Ala., on March 16, 2018. Kreeder13 via Wikimedia Commons

As China reportedly maintains its enduring influence on American higher education by seeking to rebrand its Confucius Institutes (CI) in U.S. universities, Democrats have still refused to get tougher on the regime to counter its further infiltration, according to Republican lawmakers.

“With Joe Biden in the White House, we’re seeing ... their Confucius Institute and the threats that they pose, [including] espionage on college campuses, malign influences on American universities through Confucius Institutes, have come back under different names,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) recently told the “Capitol Report” program on NTD, an affiliate of The Epoch Times.