How China Infiltrated U.S. Classrooms

Russ Steele

Taking a lesson from the progressives who have taken over the American education system, spending more time on indoctrination than teaching, China has joined the propaganda brigade.

From Politico:

Last year, the University of North Carolina at Charlotte made an announcement to great fanfare: The university would soon open a branch of the Confucius Institute, the Chinese government-funded educational institutions that teach Chinese language, culture and history. The Confucius Institute would “help students be better equipped to succeed in an increasingly globalized world,” says Nancy Gutierrez, UNC Charlotte’s dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and “broaden the University’s outreach and support for language instruction and cultural opportunities in the Charlotte community,” according to a press release.

But the Confucius Institutes’ goals are a little less wholesome and edifying than they sound—and this is by the Chinese government’s own account. A 2011 speech by a standing member of the Politburo in Beijing laid out the case: “The Confucius Institute is an appealing brand for expanding our culture abroad,” Li Changchun said. “It has made an important contribution toward improving our soft power. The ‘Confucius’ brand has a natural attractiveness. Using the excuse of teaching Chinese language, everything looks reasonable and logical.” (more here)

Check out the list below are one of your children exposed to China's propaganda?  There are 110 US institutions on the list take from the Confucius Institute website: 　

Confucius Institute at the University of Maryland

Confucius Institute at San Francisco State University

Confucius Institute at the College of William & Mary

Confucius Institute at China Institute

Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas

Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa

University of Massachusetts Confucius Institute at Boston

Confucius Institute at the University of Iowa

Confucius Institute at Michigan State University

Confucius Institute at Pace University

Confucius Institute at the University of Oklahoma

Confucius Institute at Purdue University

Confucius Institute at the University of Missouri

Confucius Institute at North Carolina State University

Confucius Institute at Bryant University

Confucius Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles

Confucius Institute at University of California, Davis

Confucius Institute at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Confucius Institute at Portland State University

Confucius Institute at the University of Rhode Island

Confucius Institute at Community College of Denver

Confucius Institute at New Mexico State University

Confucius Institue at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Confucius Institute at the University of Pittsburgh

Confucius Institute at Arizona State University

Confucius Institute at the University of Oregon

Confucius Institute at the University of Memphis

Confucius Institute at Wayne State University

Confucius Institute at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Confucius Institute at the University of Central Arkansas

Confucius Institute at Valparaiso University

Confucius Institute at Miami University

Confucius Institute in Indianapolis

Confucius Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University

Confucius Institute at Troy University

Confucius Institute at the University of Utah

Confucius Institute at the University of Arizona

Confucius Institute at Xavier University of Louisiana

Confucius Institute at Houston Independent School District

Confucius Institute at Broward County Public Schools

Confucius Institute at East Central Ohio Educational Service Center

Confucius Institute at Colorado State University

Confucius Institute at Auburn University at Montgomery

Confucius Institute at Old Dominion University

Confucius Institute at Central Connecticut State University

Confucius Institute at Texas Southern University

Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas

Confucius Institute at Webster University

Confucius Institute at the University of South Florida

Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota

Confucius Institute in Atlanta

Confucius Institute at the University of Akron

Confucius Institute at the University of Montana

Confucius Institute at the University of South Carolina

Confucius Institute at Cleveland State University

Confucius Institute at Kennesaw State University

Confucius Institute at San Diego State University

Confucius Institute at the University of Toledo

Confucius Institute at Alfred University

Confucius Institute at Stony Brook University

Confucius Institute at George Mason University

Confucius Institute at Presbyterian College

Confucius Institute at University of Michigan

Confucius Institute at Western Michigan University

Confucius Institute of the State of Washington

Confucius Institute at the George Washington University

Confucius Institute at the University of Idaho

Confucius Institute at the University of Southern Maine

Confucius Institute at University of West Florida

Confucius Institute at Prairie View A&M University

Confucius Institute at the University at Albany, State University of New York

Confucius Institute at Dickinson State University

Confucius Institute at St. Cloud State University

Confucius Institute at Augusta University

Confucius Institute at Miami Dade College

Confucius Institute at Middle Tennessee University

Confucius Institute at University of Tennessee

Confucius Institute at Wesleyan College

Confucius Institute at State College of Optometry, State University of New York

Confucius Institute in Chicago

Confucius Institute for Business at State University of New York

Confucius Institute at Columbia University

Confucius Institute at State University of New York at Buffalo

Confucius Institute at the University of Texas at San Antonio

Confucius Institute of Chinese Opera at Binghamton University

Confucius Institute at Stanford University

Confucius Institute at West Kentucky University

Confucius Institute at the University of Kentucky

Confucius Institute at the University of Delaware

Confucius Institute at the University of New Hampshire

Confucius Institute at Georgia State University

Confucius Institute at University of Alaska Anchorage

Confucius Institute at the Northern State University

Confucius Institute at Tufts University

Confucius Institute at Kansas State University

Confucius Institute at University of North Florida

Confucius Institute at Alabama A&M University

Confucius Institute at California State University, Long Beach

Confucius Institute at Temple University

Confucius Institute at West Virginia University

Confucius Institute at Southern Utah University

Confucius Institute at New Jersey City University

Confucius Institute at Clark County School District

Confucius Institute at Davis School Disrict

Confucius Institute at Savannah State University

Confucius Institute at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Confucius Institute at Northwest Nazarene University

What are your children learning? 

Comments

[Don Bessee]

Its not just the colleges and industrial technology theft-

http://www.businessinsider.com/cia-officer-zhen-cheng-li-arrested-for-retaining-classified-info-2018-1

;-)

[Scenes]

re: The OP.

I ran into that a while ago but didn't think much of it. I can't say that it's much different than the exporting of pro-US media and education programs over the entire post-war period.

Getting down to the nitty-gritty, I wonder if those Chinese programs have been designed to weaken the West somehow, or just to promote Chinese values and language? If the latter, what should the Green Libertarians make of exporting the model of a highly nationalistic ethnostate?

[fish]

Posted by: Scenes | 17 January 2018 at 12:52 PM

If the latter, what should the Green Libertarians make of exporting the model of a highly nationalistic ethnostate?

I'm sure that on the progressive scorecard ethnic Pokemon points negate their Chinese nationalistic impulses!

[Paul Emery]

George
What freedom of curriculum do you support for Charter School? Should that be left up to the parents whose children are in the Charters?

[George Rebane]

PaulE 130pm - Charter schools are also staffed by professional educators. These should be sensitive to any ideological preponderance of their students' parents when designing cultural curricula (e.g. history, civics, literature, ...). In the more 'objective subjects' such as in STEM education, they should devise curricula that gives their students skills that enable them to have the most choices in continuing education and/or careers, given the academic preparation and intellectual measures of their student body.

[Paul Emery]

What if the parents desire something different such as a Waldorf influenced curriculum or a spiritual directed influence. Should the parents have the ability to influence the Charter in that way under the umbrella of public education?

[Robert Cross]

One would think that since China is now a major trading partner, and soon to be the global economic leader (especially in alternative energy while the US drowns in good old boys making a lot of bucks with no future fossil fuel) learning the language and culture would be wise especially in the business world. When Japan became important to American commerce and corporations began doing business with the Japanese the early cultural blunders led to the "ugly American" effect and did significant damage to early business relationships.. Shortly thereafter Japanese became the language and cultural studies subjects de jour in colleges, especially for business majors. Nothing new here just a new player.

Painting this as some form of commie plot (as suggested by the common associations related to the word "indoctrination") is beyond naive and paranoid. China is no longer a communist state. It more resembles the hybrid nordic model of part socialism part capitalism.

Global capitalism is creating world market places where the same goods appear all over. Multi-culturalism and racial homogenization are the direct result of global marketing. People see other cultures and adopt aspects of them. Mostly this is a west to east movement as western consumerism and products are being sold and adopted globally as standards of living rise in the third world. Most of these goods are manufactured in China.

[George Rebane]

PaulE 205pm - consistent with my 141pm, yes, if the constitute a significant majority of the students attending.

RobertC 209pm - "(China) more resembles the hybrid nordic model of part socialism part capitalism." That is such an ignorant assessment that it leaves me gasping for air. Is that what they are teaching you on MSNBC and CNN?

[Paul Emery]

George

I agree with you on this.

[Gregory]

My son got less Catholicism at Mount St. Mary's Academy than a Yuba River Charter kid would get Steiner's anthroposoporrifics embedded into the curriculum. YRCS, one of the worst schools in California by the STAR/API testing, is getting rewarded for its mediocrity with a brand new physical site costing a ton o money with anthroposopothy designed into the classrooms.

So, should the money follow the student to whatever school they attend? Four years after my kid left MSM, his class in primary school was overrepresented among the kids with above 4.0 GPAs all of whom are called valedictorians, a very strange practice relegating the kid with a 3.99 the class salutatorian as a cruel booby prize.

I wonder... how are kids from Yuba River Charter doing in their classes at NUHS... no, don't bother answering with anecdotes, Paul. Public data.

[Paul Emery]

Why not contact Yuba Charter Gregory. they have the data and would be willing to share it. I haven't been directly involved with the school for 10 years.

[Walt]

Note to Paul. They don't listen.(or really give a crap)
I sent one of mine there years ago. I see outcome based education is still alive and well.

[Gregory]

They have the data of student GPA's four years after graduation? I don't think so, Paul. They have the same anecdotes you've shared here.

There's also the problem of their cherrypicking of students with accomplished parents, at least on paper. Income and education. So if they produce graduates that are 6th decile accomplishment, if they started with 10th decile expectation kids, they're holding their students back.

That's the sort of data that is needed... the STAR results, the Academic Performance Index, the 100 Similar Schools list. It doesn't exist past about 2013.

[Paul Emery]

You should contact the school Gregory. I haven't had close associations with them for 10 years. Most of the kids I knew breezed through NU many in two years.

[Gregory]

George R 216pm

To be specific to the Yuba River Charter and the Grass Valley Charter schools, neither disclose to parents their piss poor past performance in math, possibly killing the chances for their students to hit the ground running at a University of California in a math-based curriculum, from math, physics, chemistry and engineering. Assuming they even get into a good school.

I think a better way to ask the question is "should tax money be given to schools that do NOT provide an curriculum demonstrated to lead to grade level competence in mathematics by the end of the 8th grade (12th grade for high schools)?"

[Walt]

Seems Gregory and myself have first hand knowledge Paul.
My kid was there 10 or so years ago. It sucked then.
So "we" lived it. Did you have skin in the game? Or just a salesman for the joint?

[George Rebane]

Gregory 336pm - I think you're having this conversation with PaulE. My 216pm was an answer to his question.

[Paul Emery]

Family involved yes, my Stepson.

[Paul Emery]

Looks like you're asking for more regulations Gregory. Hmmm