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US Defense Secretary Targets Chinese Confucius Institutes on Campuses

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the Pentagon is targeting Chinese government-backed organizations operating on American campuses. These Confucius Institutes, which Hegseth described as "propaganda cells," have been added to a Pentagon list of national security threats. The initiative aims to dismantle these organizations, which are accused of intellectual property theft and ideological infiltration among American students. AI

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US Defense Secretary Targets Chinese Confucius Institutes on Campuses

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Khushboo Razdan ·

    ‘Systematically dismantled’: Hegseth’s new offensive against China’s Confucius Institutes

    Just weeks before Donald Trump’s second trip to China this year and his third meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom he has called a “truly great” friend, his administration is intensifying its crackdown on Confucius Institutes – Beijing-backed centres that promote Chinese langu…

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