By 2020, there were 75 operating in the United States, 65 of which were active on university campuses. And these institutions, according to the American association of university professors in 2014, said The institutes, quote, function as an arm of the Chinese state. Now what they do is two things. Number one, they engage in propaganda on college campuses, pushing the propaganda and messaging from the Chinese Communist Party, doing things like trying … (16:46–16:51)
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Asserts that Confucius Institutes function as an arm of the Chinese state.
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