Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes a national security threat
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The United States Department of Defense has designated Confucius Institutes, Chinese-funded cultural centres on university campuses, as a threat to US national security.
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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the move on Friday in a video posted on social media, saying the Pentagon added the organisations to its list of institutions that threaten national security.
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Washington has long accused the centres of serving as Chinese propaganda tools and has taken steps to crack down on them.
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Hegseth said Confucius Institutes had operated in disguise after being restricted by Congress, calling them “sleeper organisations”.
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“It turns out that 80 new propaganda cells across 30 universities had popped up using different names and different charters, but with the same mission: to steal intellectual property and to infiltrate the minds of American students,” he said.
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In the video, Hegseth said that Chinese government-backed cultural programmes had infiltrated universities and reappeared in new guises despite congressional restrictions.
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Over the past two months, the Pentagon has “systematically dismantled every single one of these organisations”, he said.
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The Chinese embassy in Washington did not respond to Reuters’ request for comment.
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