[Epoch Times February 10, 2021](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Chen Ting) Former PresidentTrump(Trump) once issued a policy requiring American schools to disclose their “Confucius Institute“The situation of cooperation.However, on January 26, the President of the United StatesBidenA few days after taking office, this block was quietly liftedChinese Communist PartyInfiltrate American policies.
TrumpBefore leaving office, the government tried to promulgate a policy to compel U.S. elementary, secondary and higher education institutions to discloseConfucius InstituteAll contracts and transactions. According to this policy, schools that fail to report information truthfully will lose the relevant certifications for the exchange visit program and students.
According to a report by the U.S. news website Campus Reform,BidenThe president quietly revoked this policy within a week after taking office.
The report pointed out that according to the records of the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs, Biden had cancelled this policy on January 26. A spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) also confirmed to The Epoch Times via email that this policy has been cancelled.
Seth Cropsey, director of the American Center for Sea Power at the Hudson Institute, the American think tank, said he hoped that the Biden administration was not trying to “appease China.”
Kropsey said that he hopes that the Biden administration will not show that the outside world feels that the United States seems to be rightChinese Communist PartyThe “military construction, invasion of neighboring countries, militarization of the South China Sea, and successful theft of intellectual property rights are ignored.”
When talking about the Confucius Institute, Kropsey said: “It is not normal to allow an external organization, not to mention a country that has a strategically competitive relationship with the United States, to be able to choose a professor in a university. “
He added that doing so also threatened the “academic independence and freedom” of the United States.
In August last year, former Secretary of State Pompeo officially announced that the Confucius Institute’s American Center was a “foreign embassies” and emphasized the need to ensure that American students learn Chinese and Chinese culture without being manipulated by the CCP.
Before the presidential election last year, Pompeo said in October that he was asking American high schools, universities and K-12 educational institutions to close Confucius Institutes.
Pompeo said that the Confucius Institute is actually the CCP’s propaganda organization. Its operation in the United States enables the CCP’s influence to actually exist on American campuses. It must be turned off.
After the Biden administration withdrew Trump’s policy of restricting Confucius Institutes, Michael McCaul, the chief Republican member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives, stated that the Confucius Institutes are funded and staffed by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Threats to the American education system.
McCall said: “The Biden administration quietly withdrew this proposed rule without consulting Congress, sending a worrying signal.”
He said that the Biden administration’s move was “telling academic institutions that they do not need to be transparent about their relationship with the Chinese regime.”
“I strongly urge the Biden administration to abide by its commitments and regard the CCP as a major threat to our national security, including in the American education system.”
Senator Marco Rubio tweeted: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that the CCP used Confucius Institutes to infiltrate American schools.”
“But now Biden has quietly withdrawn the rules proposed by the Trump administration, which require schools and universities to disclose their cooperative relationships with these Chinese government influence agents.”
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