Confucius Institutes: Getting Schooled by Beijing

Spymaster Fadden warns Confucius Institutes aim to teach more than language

, --July 20, 2010

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By Matthew Little TORONTO—When Chinese authorities sent in paramilitary troops to quash Tibetan unrest just months before the Beijing Olympics in 2008, one University of Waterloo instructor rallied her students to “work together to fight with Canadian media” who reported the regime’s heavy-handed tactics.
Yan Li, a former reporter with the Chinese Communist Party’s official Xinhua News Agency, recounted her efforts to confront media sympathy with “Tibetan separatists” in an article posted on a website serving Chinese literature scholars in North America called Wenxinshe. Yan used class time to explain “the history of Tibet and its current situation,” showing students a map with Tibet clearly inside China. More...

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