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The International Building at Griffith University where the Tourism Confucius Institute operates on the Gold Coast campus.
(Richard Szabo/The Epoch Times) and the Confucius statue at Gold Coast Chinatown, which was partly funded by the Confucius Institute. Shiftchange/Wikimedia Commons CC
GOLD COAST, Australia—The Tourism Confucius Institute of Griffith University held a free “reading community activity” at the Gold Coast’s Southport Library on Nov. 30 that was advertised as a seminar about Chinese culture.
However, people who attended could be forgiven for thinking it was an event by the Beijing-backed Confucius Institute on how China is rising in the world and why those who criticize Beijing are wrong.
Richard Szabo is an award-winning journalist with more than 12 years' experience in news writing at mainstream and niche media organizations. He has a specialty in business, tourism, hospitality, and healthcare reporting.
