Pentagon puts China-funded Confucius Institutes on US security threat list
WASHINGTON, Oct 24 — The US Department of Defense has designated Confucius Institutes, Chinese-funded cultural cen...
On October 24th, the United States Department of Defense declared Confucius Institutes - Chinese-funded cultural centers established at American university campuses - a potential threat to national security, according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Pentagon's decision comes after the emergence of 80 new propaganda cells within 30 universities, which Hegseth described as sleeper organizations operating under different names and charters but with the same objective: to pilfer intellectual property and infiltrate the thoughts of American students.
Hegseth announced in a video that the Department of Defense had dismantled all these centers within the past two months.
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