China’s Communist Party Buying Access to US High Schools
Consul General Wang Baodong attends a YES Friends Club event and a China-US interschool memorandum-signing ceremony with Chicago Public Schools. Photo courtesy of the Consulate General of the People’s Republic of China in Chicago. The Chinese Communist Party has pursued a decades-long, multilayered strategy to embed its influence in American education, adapting each time federal investigations closed one channel. At the university level, Confucius Institutes,