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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…