The University of Delaware announced this week that it plans to end its ten-year partnership with the Confucius Institute, an off-shoot of the Chinese government. It joins 20 other American universities who are ending their relationships with the Chinese organization.
According to a student newspaper report, the University of Delaware announced this week that it plans to end its relationship with the Confucius Institute in 2020. The institute has been accused of bribing American colleges with funding in exchange for control over the discourse and messaging on China.
Despite concerns that the closure of the University of Delaware’s Confucius Institute, Associate Deputy Provost Ravi Ammigan claims that will not lessen resources for international students or students looking to study abroad.
“I don’t believe the UDCI situation will decrease service to international students,” Ammigan said in a short comment. “OISS ranks 19th globally for international students. I think that’s very telling.” This suggests that more universities around the country can suspend their relationship without risking the loss of student resources. In fact, more than 20 American colleges and universities have recently ended their relationship with the Confucius Institute.
Breitbart News reported this week that Senator Josh Hawley has continued his call for a federal investigation into the Confucius Institute.
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Northwest Woodsman: The Chinese have been infiltrating our universities since at least the 1970s to my knowledge. A significant number were subsequently hired by aerospace companies after graduation. I was a federal special agent in Southern California during that time and Chinese “students” were frequently caught stealing intellectual and proprietary information which they then provided to Chinese military intelligence authorities. Once, we caught one who had tape on the bottom of his shoes that was intended to pick up metal filings in a aerospace company machine shop. They were attempting to determine what alloys were used in manufacturing satellites.
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