Senators Introduce Bill Forcing Colleges to Disclose Financial Ties With Beijing

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Lawmakers recently introduced a bill that would force American colleges to disclose their financial ties with the Chinese regime, including its Confucius Institutes, in order to qualify to receive international students.

The bill, put forward by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), would make such disclosure a condition to a universityโ€™s eligibility to be part of the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which provides approval for schools to enroll students holding non-immigrant visas.

โ€œThe centerpiece of this bill is disclosure and transparency,โ€ Grassley said on the Senate floor on May 10. โ€œIf the schools want visas for their foreign students, theyโ€™ll first have to disclose their ties to the Chinese government.โ€

The bill comes amid heightened scrutiny on the Chinese regimeโ€™s influence on American campuses. A 2020 investigation by the Department of Education found that universities received almost $1.5 billion in contracts and gifts from China from 2014 to 2020.

โ€œThe communist regime poses a serious threat to U.S. research as well as undue influence on our college campuses,โ€ Grassley said in a May 5 statement.

One of the vehicles of Beijingโ€™s influence is Confucius Institutes. Billed as Chinese language and culture centers, the institutes have been sharply criticized for promoting Beijingโ€™s propaganda and suppressing academic freedom in universities across the country.

From 2006 to 2019, the Chinese regime poured more than $158 million to about 100 U.S. universities through Confucius Institutes, according to a 2019 U.S. Senate subcommittee on investigations report (pdf). There are currently 47 Confucius Institutes in the country, according to the National Association of Scholars (NAS).

โ€œThis legislation will shine a light on any funny business that the Chinese government is trying to play on our campuses under the guise of Confucius Institutes and any financial ties between our educational institutions and the communist regime,โ€ Grassley said in the statement.

BY CATHY HE

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