EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are introducing legislation that would close what they describe as loopholes in the Biden administration’s guidance that still allows Department of Defense (DOD) funding to go to universities with Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked Confucius Institutes. The No Federal Funding for CCP Spying and Persuasion in […]
Banks, Rubio introducing blanket ban on Pentagon funding for schools hosting CCP-tied Confucius Institutes
August 12, 2023 by
Rep Jim Banks demands answers on ‘inadequate’ DOD Confucius Institute waiver guidance: ‘Agents’ of the CCP
June 28, 2023 by
FIRST ON FOX: Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican, demanded answers from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding the Defense Department’s (DOD) “inadequate guidance” for colleges seeking waivers to host Confucius Institutes on campus while maintaining department funding. Banks, who is running for Senate in Indiana, sent Austin the letter on Friday regarding the DOD guidance […]
China’s Confucius Institutes are Back
February 16, 2021 by
President Joe Biden and his great friend and supporter China’s dictator Xi Jinping The Biden administration’s Department of Homeland Security has eliminated plans for a federal rule that would have required United States schools, colleges, and universities to disclose agreements with Chinese government-funded Confucius Institutes on their campuses. A Federal Register notice said the rule, […]