Writer : Zhang Jie / Publisher : Beijing Spring
Reproduction : Sound Of Hope / Ref : https://www.soundofhope.org/post/412468
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Image : Pompeo announced "Confucius Institute" is a foreign mission.
Recently, the United States has frequently attacked China. Not long ago, the Chinese Consulate-General in Houston was just closed, and then 11 Chinese and Hong Kong officials including Carrie Lam were imposed sanctions. Now they are hitting the Confucius Institute with a heavy blow, hitting the key to their fate, and designating the Confucius Institute America Center as a diplomatic mission. This move is like dropping a dragon with eighteen palms, and the Confucius Institute is hanging by a thread. I blame the silly war wolf Hua Chunying, who wants you to yell "Let the storm come harder." These pig teammates are simply CCP urgers.
On August 13, US Secretary of State Pompeo said in a statement that the Trump administration’s decision was to “seek fair and reciprocal treatment” for the Chinese government in opening up educational resources. He said that such a characterization will also help education managers across the United States decide whether to continue to cooperate with these projects, especially considering the links between their management agencies in Beijing and the CCP. He said that the Confucius Institute America Center is actually an "entity that promotes Beijing's global propaganda and exerts harmful influence on American campuses and K-12 classrooms." On the same day, the United States was responsible for East Asia. The Assistant Secretary of State for Pacific Affairs and Pacific Affairs said that by taking this action, “we ask them to tell us what they do in the United States. We did not close them, we just classify them as what they should be, that is, foreign missions.” Confucius What the hell does the college do? What does it mean to list the Confucius Institute America Center as a diplomatic mission? Why does the United States want to deal with Confucius Institutes? Now, let me talk about my views:
First, what does the Confucius Institute do?
According to the information of the Chinese government, the Confucius Institute, founded in 2004, is a non-profit educational organization affiliated to the Office of the National Leading Group for International Promotion of Chinese Language, a unit directly under the Ministry of Education. According to the information on the website of the office, the purpose of the Confucius Institute is to "with the development of China's economy and the ever-widening of international exchanges, the demand for Chinese language learning in countries around the world has increased dramatically. In order to accelerate the Chinese language to the world and enhance the influence of Chinese language and culture". In other words, the Confucius Institute is a cultural exchange and Chinese language training institution funded by the Chinese government, similar to the German Goethe Institute.
As of December 2019, China has established 550 Confucius Institutes and 1172 Confucius Classrooms in primary and secondary schools in 162 countries (regions). In terms of global distribution, Europe, America and Asia are the most densely distributed regions of Confucius Institutes, with 149, 144 and 93 respectively. The United Kingdom, Russia, France, Germany, and Italy in Europe; the United States, Canada and Brazil in the Americas; South Korea, Japan, and Thailand have the largest number and the largest scale in Asia.
The first Confucius Institute in the United States was established at the University of Maryland in 2004. Around 2017, the development of Confucius Institutes in the United States reached its peak, increasing to more than 100. The Hoover Institute and the Asia Society released a report on the influence of the Chinese government and the Communist Party in the United States in 2018. Hanban usually provides US$150,000 in start-up funds to American universities and then allocates an average of 100,000 or 200,000 per year. Dollar. It provides start-up funding of US$50,000 for secondary schools, followed by US$15,000 per year.
However, since the establishment of the Confucius Institute, there have been constant controversies, because it is parasitic in Western universities, primary and secondary schools, and its funds and teaching staff come from China, which is very different from the independent operation model of the Goethe Institute in Germany. In recent years, educational institutions in Canada, Australia, the United States, Germany, and Sweden have closed Confucius schools. According to statistics from the National Association of Scholars in the United States, since 2014, 45 universities across the United States have closed Confucius Institutes.
Second, what does it mean to define a Confucius Institute as a diplomatic mission?
The Confucius Institute America Center is responsible for the management of 75 Confucius Institutes and 500 Confucius Schools across the United States. What does it mean for the White House to designate it as a diplomatic mission? We have heard of the "Foreign Agent Registration Act" before, but why did the "Diplomatic Missions Act" appear again? Are they the same thing?
There are two types of foreign missions: one is any mission, institution or entity involved in diplomatic, consular or other activities. The second is a mission, institution or entity that is actually owned or effectively controlled by a foreign government or organization representing a sovereign or political entity. The White House's designation of the Confucius Institute America Center as a diplomatic mission is to classify it into the second category. Clifton Seagroves, acting director of the Office of Foreign Missions of the U.S. Department of State, said that agencies designated as foreign missions must provide the U.S. Department of State with “registration of its personnel, real estate assets, and prior approval to conduct any operations in the United States. Basic information on future real estate acquisitions." "In addition, the Confucius Institute America Center is now required to provide a series of reports on its personnel and business expenses in Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms in the United States on a regular basis, and provide us with information on their courses and training materials. "The definition of a Confucius Institute as a diplomatic mission means that it is recognized by the United States as a propaganda tool owned and controlled by the Chinese government.
The difference between the "Diplomatic Mission Law" and the "Foreign Agent Registration Law" is that the "Foreign Agent Registration Law" was enacted in 1938 and its original purpose was to strictly control "Nazi propaganda." The "Diplomatic Mission Law" was promulgated in 1982 with the purpose of strictly controlling "Cold War propaganda." In those days, Soviet news organizations such as the Soviet TASS News Agency and Pravda were designated by the US as "foreign missions." The "Diplomatic Mission Law" is more stringent than the "Foreign Agent Registration Law". The "Foreign Agent Registration Act" is under the jurisdiction of the US Department of Justice, while the "Diplomatic Missions Act" is under the direct management of the White House.
Third, why does the United States want to kill the Confucius Institute?
In November 2014, I was invited by a friend from an American professor at Wisconsin State University to his home for Thanksgiving. In his home, I met two Chinese teachers from Confucius Institutes, from a university in my hometown. They told me that the teachers of the foreign language department were assigned to the school in turn, but because the students of the Confucius Institute were too poor in Chinese, they could only teach them some simple conversations. Mainly communicate with them in English and promote China.
At present, the Confucius Institute has been charged with three crimes: one is that the Confucius Institute violates freedom of speech; the other is human rights violation; and the third is participating in espionage. Peterson, research project director of the National Association of Scholars in the United States, wrote a report for the Association in 2017, saying that the Confucius Institute deliberately avoided China’s political history and human rights issues, and forcibly recognized Taiwan and Tibet as part of China. Among them, these colleges would not talk about Tiananmen Square on June 4th. event. The Director of the Confucius Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia appointed Xu Jie, the Consul General of the Chinese Consulate in Brisbane, as a part-time professor in July 2019. In October last year, the Belgian authorities stated that Song Xinning, dean of the Confucius Institute at the Free University of Brussels, had been refused entry for engaging in espionage activities. In February 2018, FBI Director Rey hinted at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that China used Confucius Institutes to infiltrate American universities and collect intelligence for the Chinese government. In 2013, McMaster University in Canada announced the closure of the Confucius Institute, the first in the world. The reason is that when China's "Hanban" recruited Confucius Institute teachers, there were discriminatory clauses in the contract. Zhao Qi, a teacher at the Confucius Institute at McMaster University, is a Falun Gong practitioner. She has a clause in the contract she signed with Confucius practitioners that "you must not practice Falun Gong or participate in Falun Gong activities." After Zhao Qi arrived in Canada, she told the media about her personal experience. McMaster University and Hanban had negotiated for more than a year to ask China to remove clauses that discriminated against Falun Gong, but it was unsuccessful. Therefore, McMaster University decided to close the Confucius Institute. The three-year documentary "The Name of Confucius" completed by the Chinese-Canadian director Qiu Min reveals the shady scene of the CCP spending billions of dollars to build the "Confucius Institute".
Fourth, why did the CCP move out of Confucius?
It is not strange or strange that China is running Confucius Institutes internationally. Not surprisingly, it is because Confucius was a Chinese cultural sage more than 2,000 years ago. Since the Han Dynasty, he has been revered as "the most sacred teacher" and "the master of all ages." It is strange because Confucius is the biggest enemy of the CCP. Mao Zedong liked Qin Shihuang the most and hated Confucius the most. He wrote in the poem "Seven Laws · Reading "Feudalism" Cheng Guo Lao (Guo Moruo)": Advise the emperor to curse Qin Shihuang less, and discuss the burning incident. The death of the ancestral dragon soul is still there, and the scientific name of Confucius is high. Confucius rested in Qufu, Shandong for more than 2,400 years. On November 7th, 1966, Tan Houlan (one of the five leaders of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution and a teacher of Beijing Normal University) led a crowd to rally in front of the "Monument to the People's Heroes" in Tiananmen Square, vowing to destroy the "Kongjiadian". After Tan Houlan led more than two hundred rebels and arrived in Qufu, he united with the local rebels to set up the "Revolutionary Rebellion Contact Station for Thorough Destruction of Confucius", and held the Confucian Temple Destroyed Ten Thousands Meeting. From November 9th to December 7th, they destroyed more than 6,000 cultural relics. The statue of Confucius was destroyed. At the same time, they burned more than 2,700 ancient books, more than 900 scrolls of calligraphy and painting, destroyed more than a thousand stone steles, destroyed the Confucian Temple, and destroyed the Confucian Mansion and Kong. The former site of Lin and Shuguo, Xuan Ping Kong’s tomb, excavated the tomb of Kong Lingyi, the 76th "Sheng Gong" of the sixty-sixth generation, and criticized the exposure of his dead body. The CCP and Confucius are incompatible with each other.
In January 1974, Mao Zedong criticized Lin Biao for not forgetting Confucius who was a thousand years ago, and carried out "Criticizing Lin and Criticizing Confucius" activities. After 30 years, Confucius suddenly became the treasure of the CCP and even started the Confucius Institute. Chinese leaders including Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping, whether they respect Confucianism or criticize Confucianism, have nothing to do with the promotion of traditional culture. They are merely pragmatic methods and tools in political struggle. Xi Jinping hopes to use Confucian culture to repackage Marxism-Leninism, rebuild the international order for it, and build a so-called community with a shared future for mankind. There is no essential difference from Mao Zedong’s export of Mao Zedong’s thoughts on people’s war to the Third World. The Confucius Institute has nothing to do with Confucius and Confucian culture, but is actually using the name of Confucius for the purpose of publicity.
In summary, the U.S. government's accusation of the Confucius Institute as a diplomatic mission is to force the Confucius Institute to delink from the U.S. educational institutions, which is another sanction against China. With the US's move and Western countries' follow-up, the CCP's 16-year-old large-scale foreign propaganda agency will soon be killed. In order to conceal the essence of its totalitarian system, the CCP did not hesitate to put the Confucius back a thousand years ago. Mao Zedong’s humiliation of Confucius and Xi Jinping’s high praise for Confucius were of the same nature, and both used Confucius and Chinese culture as tools for political struggle. But people are not as good as the heavens, and good and evil are rewarded in the end, but they come early and late. I hope that Hua Chunying will yell "Storm" again. This is an old age, and the aging CCP can really "shun the sky and respond to people", kicking her legs into that life.
——Reproduced from the editor in charge of "Beijing Spring": Hao Yan
(The article only represents personal positions and opinions)
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