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Before leaving office, the Trump administration sought to enact a policy to compel American schools and institutions of higher education to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institutes. In accordance with this policy, schools that do not report accurate information will lose the relevant certifications for the exchange visit program and students.
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According to a US news website, Campus Reform, President Biden quietly revoked this policy a week after taking office.
The report noted that according to records from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Biden had canceled this policy on January 26. A spokesperson for the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) also confirmed to The Epoch Times by email that this policy has been canceled.
Seth Cropsey, director of the US Center for Maritime Energy at the Hudson Institute, the US think tank, said he hoped the Biden administration was not trying to “appease China.”
Kropsey said he hopes the Biden administration will not act to make the outside world feel that the United States seems indifferent to the “military construction of the CCP, the invasion of neighboring countries, the militarization of the South China Sea and the successful robbery of intellectuals.” property rights.”
Speaking of the Confucius Institute, Kropsey said: “It is not normal to allow an outside organization, let alone a country that has a strategically competitive relationship with the United States, to choose a professor at a university.”
He added that doing so also threatened America’s “academic independence and freedom.”
In August last year, former Secretary of State Pompeo officially announced that the American Center of the Confucius Institute was a “foreign embassy” and emphasized the need to ensure that American students learn Chinese and Chinese culture without being manipulated by the CCP.
Before last year’s presidential election, Pompeo said in October that he was asking American K-12 high schools, universities and educational institutions to close Confucius Institutes.
Pompeo said that the Confucius Institute is actually the CCP’s propaganda organization. Its operation in the United States allows the CCP’s influence to really exist on American campuses. It must be off.
After the Biden administration withdrew Trump’s policy of restricting Confucius Institutes, Michael McCaul, the Republican member-in-chief of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, declared that the Confucius Institute is funded and staffed by the Ministry of Education. from China. Threats to the American educational system.
McCall said: “The Biden administration quietly withdrew this proposed rule without consulting Congress, sending a disturbing signal.”
He claimed that the Biden administration’s move was “to tell academic institutions that they do not need to be transparent about their relationship with the Chinese regime.”
“I strongly urge the Biden administration to honor its commitments and view the CCP as a major threat to our national security, including the American educational system.”
Senator Marco Rubio tweeted: “FBI Warned CCP Uses Confucius Institutes to Infiltrate American Schools.”
“But now Biden has quietly withdrawn the rules proposed by the Trump administration, which require schools and universities to disclose their cooperative relationships with these Chinese government influencers.”
Editor in charge: Ye Ziwei #
