{"id":42087,"date":"2021-05-12T14:54:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42087"},"modified":"2021-05-12T14:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T18:54:43","slug":"discovering-the-financial-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=42087","title":{"rendered":"Discovering The Financial Ties"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Epoch Times<\/a> is reporting today that Senators have introduced a bill that would force American colleges to disclose their financial ties with the Chinese regime, including its Confucius Institutes, in order to qualify to receive international students. In view of recent arrests of college professors who were working for the Communist Chinese government, I think this is probably a good idea.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The bill comes amid heightened scrutiny on the Chinese regime\u2019s influence on American campuses. A 2020\u00a0investigation<\/a> by the Department of Education found that universities received almost $1.5 billion in contracts and gifts from China from 2014 to 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe communist regime poses a serious threat to U.S. research as well as undue influence on our college campuses,\u201d Grassley said in a May 5 statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the vehicles of Beijing\u2019s influence is Confucius Institutes. Billed as Chinese language and culture centers, the institutes have been sharply criticized<\/a> for promoting Beijing\u2019s propaganda and suppressing academic freedom in universities across the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

From 2006 to 2019, the Chinese regime poured more than $158 million to about 100 U.S. universities through Confucius Institutes, according to a 2019 U.S. Senate subcommittee on investigations report (pdf<\/a>). There are currently 47 Confucius Institutes in the country, according to the National Association of Scholars (NAS).<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThis legislation will shine a light on any funny business that the Chinese government is trying to play on our campuses under the guise of Confucius Institutes and any financial ties between our educational institutions and the communist regime,\u201d Grassley said in the statement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The proposed legislation would effectively codify a Trump-era policy proposal that was automatically\u00a0rescinded<\/a> when President Joe Biden took office because the proposed rule not been formalized through regulatory processes before the end of former President Donald Trump\u2019s term.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The Senate in March passed a bill that would force host universities to take full control of Confucius Institutes or lose their federal funding.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the past few years, dozens of Confucius Institutes have closed down around the country. But in their place, many universities have simply entered into new rebranded partnerships with the Chinese regime under a different name,\u00a0according<\/a>\u00a0to the NAS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This bill is definitely needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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