Pete Hegseth alleges Confucius Institutes operating in disguise on US university campuses
The US defense department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses known as Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, defense secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday.
Washington has long accused Confucius Institutes of being Chinese propaganda tools and has taken steps to crack down on them.
Hegseth, in a video posted on social media, alleged that Confucius Institutes were operating under disguise at US universities and that the Pentagon had added them to its list of institutions that threaten US national security.
Lol at the scared, insecure ‘men’. Maybe up your game?
Welp, I don’t think they are a very serious national security issue, but I was saddened when my neighbour, who was a very nice and diligent PhD student, didn’t feel free to criticise the Chinese government when we brought it up quite innocently. It was kind of a shock as he was erudite and even-handed in every other way. And I was clearly not a party apparatchik. Very odd.
