June 19th, 2014 article from Vancouver Sun reporter Jonathan Manthorpe, Asia-Pacific columnist. Some excerpts: It’s never really been a secret: Beijing’s Confucius Institutes are a form of physical malware designed to pervert, distort and control the foreign universities, colleges and schools into which they are inserted. The institutes’ long-term objective — according to discussion at the 2012 annual conference of Hanban, the Chinese National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, which manages the institutes — is to infiltrate the mainstream of universities and colleges abroad in order to influence the broader academic system. ipolitics.ca/2014/06/19/chinas-propaganda-arm-flexes-its-muscles-in-canada/
Posted on: Sat, 28 Jun 2014 18:03:38 +0000