US Students Demand Confucius Institutes Be Shut Down

China's then vice President Xi Jinping unveils a plaque at the opening of Australia's first Chinese Medicine Confucius Institute at the RMIT University in Melbourne on June 20, 2010. The Confucius Institutes are one method of the Chinese regime exerting influence abroad. WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images
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A non-partisan student society is demanding that universities and colleges in the United States close down China’s Confucius Institutes that have been teaching students communist Chinese perceptions.

The Chinese Communist Party-backed Confucius Institutes have been under fire for years for suppressing free speech and promoting an officially approved by the slanted perception of Chinese history, among other things. But a newly-formed non-profit society of college students across the United States is pushing back.

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