Opinion: America’s universities are finally waking up to the China threat
By Josh Rogin Josh Rogin Columnist covering foreign policy and national security Email Bio Follow Columnist April 4 at 6:28 PM America’s universities have been slow in coming to terms with the problems posed by Chinese influence. They are now finally beginning to work with the national security community to respond to China’s attempts to infiltrate the United States’ higher-education system and abuse those relationships to advance Beijing’s strategic agenda. But that pushback is just beginning.
The Confucius Institutes are Chinese government-sponsored language and culture schools embedded inside U.S. educational institutions. They are wholly controlled by China’s education ministry and are part of the Chinese Communist Party’s “United Front” foreign influence operations. There are about 90 of the institutes on U.S. campuses.
“Indiana University and MIT are leading the way as examples for other colleges to follow in untangling themselves from dangerous Chinese influences like Confucius Institutes and Huawei,” said Rep. Jim Banks . “Undoubtedly more universities will follow suit as they better understand the threats.” That is why policymakers and academic leaders are coalescing around a strategy that calls for Chinese-government-linked programs on U.S. campuses to demonstrate more transparency, accountability and reciprocity. A February report from the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed huge deficiencies in all three of these areas.
“Our investigation found that schools in the United States — from kindergarten to college — have provided a level of access to the Chinese government that the Chinese government refuses to provide to the United States,” Subcommittee Chairman Rob Portman said at a recent hearing.
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