Ryan Walters: “The Trump administration rid higher ed of these Confucius…”

“We have the Chinese Communist Party spokesperson back in 2010 saying we are creating Confucius Institutes for quote unquote propaganda propagandizing our ideology into the, into other countries. I mean, they have literally stated that as their mission. We've seen higher ed. The Trump administration rid higher ed of these Confucius Institutes. You can, if you go to some college campuses, you'll see some of the old Confucius buildings that are now empty because the Trump administration really throttled these back as China became more and more adversarial.” (08:35–08:39)

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