American Universities Are Now The Front Line Of The China-U.S. Cold War

Krach warned these board members that their institutions are at the forefront of a serious challenge "Brought on by the authoritarian influence of the Chinese Communist Party." Within the same week, the Wall Street Journal reported that some professors at several elite American universities, including Harvard and Princeton, are taking steps such as using anonymous online chats to protect students from prosecution by Chinese authorities under the new National Security Law in Hong Kong.

The Chinese government fully funds and manages these CIs, including supplying teachers and teaching materials with the stated goal of teaching Chinese language, culture, and history to Americans from K-12 to universities.

Confucius Institutes present students only the CCP sanctioned version of Chinese history, which omits the CCP's human rights violations, including its persecutions of Christians and Muslims, and avoids certain political events such as the Chinese famine, the Cultural Revolution, and the 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre.

The Southwestern CSSA, a coalition of 26 CSSAs in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Hawaii stated in Chinese in its organization chart that the Chinese Embassy in Los Angeles guides the organization and must approve any candidate for the organization's presidency before he or she could officially run for the position.

Some Chinese students reported that they were monitored either by fellow Chinese students who are members of CSSAs or by Chinese spies posing as students.

Inside Higher Ed reports that "Chinese scholars who speak out against the party line are subject to harassment and imprisonment. American scholars who research China also have to monitor what they say and write, or risk being barred from researching in China." Therefore, many professors and scholars choose their research topics carefully and stay away from sensitive subjects, so they stay on the "Good" side of the Chinese government.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, "Since 2011, Chinese sources have participated in at least 1,186 donations or contracts worth more than $426 million to seventy-seven American universities." Such gifts seem natural given the increasing wealth of the Chinese population and the growing number of Chinese students.

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