Senate Panel Takes Aim at China-Funded Education Programs in U.S.

Senate panel recommends the Justice Department consider forcing program instructors at China's 100-plus Confucius Institutes in the U.S. to register as foreign agents

A powerful Senate panel recommended abolishing more than 600 Chinese government-funded cultural and language programs at U.S.

schools and universities unless Beijing provides equal access for American public diplomacy efforts in China, as U.S. officials escalate calls for a level playing field on issues from trade to the treatment of journalists.

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