Confucius Institutes Threaten UK’s Capacity to Understand China: Report

Then-Chinese vice chair 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. William West/AFP via Getty Images

Confucius Institutes (CI) in British Universities are damaging the UK’s understanding of China, a report said on Wednesday.

The report (pdf), published by foreign policy and national security think tank Henry Jackson Society (HJS), said that out of the 30 CIs in the UK only four were found to be operating within their remit of “language and culture” that is often attributed to them.