How Schools Hid Chinese Communist Party Ties After Hegseth Shut Down 80 Rebranded Confucius Institute Programs
Primary school students recite a Tang Dynasty (618–907) poem at the opening ceremony of the tenth annual National Chinese Language Conference in Houston, Texas, in April 2017. Photo: Xinhua. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced Oct. 23 that the Pentagon had shut down 80 programs at 30 American universities. The programs replaced Confucius Institutes, the Chinese Communist Party-funded language and culture centers, under new names,