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The State Department announced last week that it will change the official designation for an academic institution in the U.S. The Confucius Institute U.S. Center, which has ties to the Chinese Communist government, will be designated as a “foreign mission” due to its alleged role in “advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on […]

A student journalist was told that if he wanted information on Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas, which is a partnership between the university and the Communist Chinese government, he would have to pay $506.50 for the information.

It might be so biased and totalitarian that even university administrators notice.

Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz managed to insert an amendment that would prohibit universities from funding Confucius Institutes, which have ties to the Communist Party in China.

Texas A & M has backed away from its relationship with the Confucius Institute when the chancellor responded to concerns from a pair of state legislators–one Democrat and one Republican–that the Institutes more likely follow the model of academic freedom in China, from whence they came, than America.

With so much home-grown K-12 and college curricula in the United States, is it necessary to import courses from America’s adversaries?

One of the lesser known policies of the era of Mao Tse Tung was the relegation of Confucianism to the memory hole in Communist China. Lately, Confucius has been making a reappearance there, according to an historian from the University of Pittsburgh.

A recent report found that Communist China is heavily involved in America’s K-12 schools, to the tune of spending over $17 million from 2009-2023 in multiple school districts across the country. Parents Defending Education, a parental rights group, said that 143 school districts had active or inactive contracts with Communist China-backed programming in 34 states […]

And yes, it could happen here.

Top Vatican adviser Jeffrey Sachs says that when Pope Francis visits the United States in September, he will directly challenge the “American idea” of God-given rights embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Sachs, a special advisor to the United Nations and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, is a media superstar who can […]