On this episode of American Thought Leaders, Jan Jekielek talks with Rachelle Peterson, Director of Policy at the National Association of Scholars, on Confucius Institutes. Learn more about how the Chinese Communist Party infiltrated American universities and how Confucius Institutes are involved. While some Confucius Institutes are being shut down some are staying, simply under a different guise. They also discuss how the Chinese regime use the Thousand Talents Program and similar operations to steal American research. In this episode, we sit down with Rachelle Peterson, Director of Policy at the National Association of Scholars.
0:00​ China “infiltrating the West”
1:01​ Confucius Institutes are “nodes of influence from the Chinese Communist Party”
7:05​ Censorship in teaching materials
9:12​ Secretive contracts
17:37​ Some Confucius Institutes are shutting down
20:22​ Are some Confucius Institutes reappearing under a different guise?
24:40​ Tracking foreign gifts and donations
29:01​ Chinese espionage, theft, and the Thousand Talents Program
