British MPs Seek to Ban China’s Confucius Institutes

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

China’s beleaguered Confucius Institutes have come under renewed pressure from British MPs who are calling for new laws to ban them from the UK.

Back bench policymakers from the main political parties tabled an amendment to the Higher Education Bill on Wednesday that would outlaw the Chinese regime-funded institutes if they are seen to curb freedom of speech and academic studies.