2021年7月16日
Mark O’Neill
EJ Insight
Europe closes Confucius Institutes
Germany's Education Ministry recently called on the country's universities to end co-operation with the Confucius Institute (CI), the state-backed body that offers courses in Chinese language and culture.
"I do not want the Chinese government to influence our universities and our society," said Anja Karliczek. "We have left too much room for the Confucius Institutes and done too little to build up independent competence in China in Germany."
The warning is the latest setback in Europe for CI, Beijing's most important instrument of soft power overseas. In April 2020, Sweden closed the last of its CI classrooms; Norway followed suit in March this year. In 2019, the director of the CI at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel was expelled from the country for espionage and the institute there closed. ...
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