All of that. They engage actively in college campuses. They also engage in espionage. And the people at the Confucius Centers are spying in the colleges. Now One of the very first pieces of legislation I ever authored and passed into law... would bar money from the Department of Defense for language training to any university that has a Confucius center on campus. campus. And that legislation got bipartisan support, actually got Democrats to support my legislation. We passed it out of the Armed Services Committee, we passed it out of the Senate and Obama signed it into law. (17:27–17:46)
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Asserts that Ted Cruz authored legislation to bar Department of Defense funds for language training at universities with Confucius Institutes.
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