September 17 marks the day each year when the United States of America celebrates Constitution Day. During this week, a program on the US Constitution is required teaching in our public schools. Instead what many parents are discovering in over 500 of our K-12 schools is that their children are learning in “Confucius classrooms” financially supported by a partnership with “Hanban,” whose parent agency is the Chinese Ministry of Education in Beijing. The communist giant employs a multi-pronged approach to exporting its ideology to the US. The inroads China is making in the American educational system is beyond acceptable.
China provides our children the teachers, approved textbooks, and operating funds. For the last 16 years it has been expanding and funding these “soft power” influence operations with the end goal of broadly promoting a communist state agenda across America. When the FBI, US State Department, and some Members of Congress investigated recently, China simply adapted and renamed its Confucius Institute program the “Ministry of Education Center for Language Exchange and Cooperation” to enable it to skirt American law. Now the “Chinese International Education Foundation” funds and oversees the remaining Confucius Centers. In August, the US State Department announced it was designating the Confucius Institute US Center a foreign mission with the goal of forcing greater transparency in its recruiting operations, funding, and PRC personnel. It may have slowed, but it hasn’t stopped Beijing.
China is running what is commonly referred to as a “united front” operation in the US. The CCP is creating outposts to infiltrate college and university campuses. Over 67 of these college centers are active with five more scheduled to open by the end of September. They disseminate propaganda, conduct espionage in our top university research labs, monitor Chinese students studying in US schools and, according to CCP policy documents, serve to “make the foreign serve China.” Beijing also runs standalone organizations in American cities that show propaganda films, conduct “training,” and attempt to influence local and state politicians.
On Capitol Hill American lobbyists and public relations firms paid by communist China help push through legislation favorable to Beijing and the CCP. The Jamestown Foundation recently identified and named several of the lobbying and public relations firms hired by China. They include well-known, heavy hitters with close ties to Congress who are impactful at influence peddling. “Over the past decade, CUSEF [China-US Exchange Foundation] has been one of the most prominent Chinese entities funding lobbying efforts in the United States: from 2010 to the present, at least seven US firms have maintained contracts with CUSEF for lobbying and public relations services,” according to John Dotson of the Jamestown Foundation. CUSEF Chairman Tung Chee-Hwa is Vice-Chairman of the Chinese People’s Consultative Conference, which is under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.
BLJ Worldwide, a public relations firm in Washington, DC, performs “a broad range of public services in the U.S., including but not limited to defending and promoting China and the key strategic areas in the China-U.S. relationship in the media,” according to Dotson. In the first six months of this year CUSEF paid BLJ $313,000 and another client, the PRC Embassy, paid $144,000. Some of the funds went to the development of a social media campaign and the China-US Focus website. According to Jamestown Foundation, the establishment of such “synthetic think tank publications” backed by the Chinese Ministry of State Security follows a pattern used in other countries to promote PRC propaganda and to criticize policy China does not agree with.
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The American people need to wake up and realize that this nation is under attack from China on a number of fronts. The longer the tentacles of communism are allowed to attach themselves to our children and the republic the harder it will be to extract them.
DARIA NOVAK served in the United States State Department during the Reagan Administration, and currently is on the Board of the American Analysis of News and Media Inc., which publishes usagovpolicy.com and the New York Analysis of Policy and Government. Each Friday, she presents key updates on China.
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