Marco Rubio: “Confucius Institutes across the country... are all closed…”

“It could be any of a series of soft power institutions that come on Chinese to come onto American campuses and try to conduct activities. We have, for example, the Confucius Institutes across the country... are all closed [in Florida] now. And those come across as, oh, we just want to do interchange and teach people how to speak Mandarin and so forth.” (23:09–23:15)

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