Minnesota Legislators Oppose Confucius Institutes

Minnesota Legislators Oppose Confucius Institutes
Protesters demonstrate outside the Toronto District School Board on Jan. 11, 2014, urging the board not to implement a Confucius Institute program in Toronto schools. Allen Zhou/The Epoch Times
Epoch Times Staff
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Forty-one Minnesota state legislators wrote to two universities in Minnesota asking them to close their local branches of the Confucius Institutes.

The controversial institutes are partially or fully funded by the Chinese communist regime. Their stated purpose is to teach Chinese language and culture, but some officials inside China and critics outside say the institutes are actually a propaganda initiative.