Confucius Institutes

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #265: Athenai Institute Battles CCP Disinformation
The Athenai Institute is a college student-led organization that seeks to limit the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on U.S. college campuses. Since their inception in 2020, they have…
by Sarah Lee on April 14, 2023

Organization Trends
A Reckoning May Be Coming for Universities on Foreign Funding
The new GOP-led House is planning to investigate the influence of the Communist Party of China including everything from COVID origins to tech/government collusion. One theater of battle in the…
by Sarah Lee on March 24, 2023

Organization Trends
The New Face Behind the Confucius Institutes
Confucius Institutes have been controversial since they first opened in the United States in 2012, provoking massive pushback from the public over their influence in universities. At first glance the…
by Sam Cantor on December 9, 2022

Organization Trends
Foreign Money for Election Outcomes
Legislators and analysts interested in how nonprofit funding has shifted the political debate in the United States ought to also pay attention to another funding apparatus. This apparatus appears to…
by Sarah Lee on October 4, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Keeping a Finger on Foreign Funding in Academia
An encouraging development on Capitol Hill came Thursday when two House Republicans wrote a letter to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona asking for a status update on Section 117 of…
by Sarah Lee on June 18, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
China’s Propaganda War and How to Stop It
When President Richard Nixon took a chance on normalizing relations with China in 1972 after a quarter century of diplomatic freeze, China to most Americans was just a Third World…
by Sarah Lee on June 11, 2021

Deception & Misdirection
Selling Terrorism Through Nonprofits
As the U.S. tries to grapple with how—and how much—funding is used to promote anti-American propaganda within the U.S., the Confucius Institutes have attracted an enormous amount of attention. The…
by Sarah Lee on April 6, 2021

Organization Trends
The Confucius Institutes and CCP Propaganda on College Campuses
In January, Biden’s Department of Homeland Security dropped a proposed rule by the Trump administration that would have required universities to disclose their agreements with Confucius Institutes. Confucius Institutes are…
by Sarah Lee on March 1, 2021