Arizona State University has closed the Confucius Institute, which was run by the Chinese government and in the last few months had received increased criticism from lawmakers and human-rights ...

Discredited as Chinese-government influence operations, Confucius Institutes are now reemerging on American college campuses under new names. Confucius Institutes — once hailed by the Chinese ...

More than 300 colleges in more than 90 countries -- including about 70 institutions in the United States -- host Confucius Institutes, centers of Chinese language and culture education and research ...

Donna Breniman, a retired teacher in Raleigh, holds a benign view of Confucius Institutes, one far removed from questions of propaganda and spying. A few years ago, Breniman took an introductory ...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno often goes after university diversity and equity initiatives on the campaign trail. A repeated target: Controversial Chinese language and culture ...

Colleges and universities across America shut the doors to their Confucius Institutes over the past several years amid growing criticism of the centers' funding connection to the Chinese communist ...

There are fresh concerns that the Chinese state may be using educational funding to influence a number of academic institutions across the United States, after the issue was the subject of a House ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, on Wednesday had legislation pass through ...

Citing "national interest" concerns, the Department of Defense will no longer fund Chinese-language programs at universities that host Confucius Institutes, likely forcing a number of the ...

Students from the Confucius Institute of the University of Abomey-Calavi wear traditional Chinese attire during the "China-Benin Fashion Show" in Cotonou, Benin, on Nov 8. SERAPHIN ZOUNYEKPE/XINHUA In ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - The University of North Florida will close a campus branch of a Chinese-run cultural institute, the latest U.S. college to do so amid criticism from U.S. legislators that China ...