Confucius Institute
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Sep 11, 2026
Preston ScottHOST
He is no casual Mao admirer either.
Preston ScottHOST
He served as the founding American director of the New Mexico State University Chinese government-funded Confucius Institute, which got closed in 2020.
Preston ScottHOST
He has publicly denied that China has done anything wrong to Uyghurs in the Xinjiang province, constitutes genocide.
Preston ScottHOST
He's appeared in Chinese state media to defend the CCP.
Wilfred ReillyHOST
So I think there's this American idea, we have to be fair to the other players we interact with.
Wilfred ReillyHOST
Like we saw the Confucius Institute from China, right? Which is almost ideally designed to let in spies.
Wilfred ReillyHOST
It was all these guys that are like 30-year-old males that had mostly served in the Chinese military.
Wilfred ReillyHOST
They were bilingual in English and Chinese.
Jonathan HackettPANELIST
And actually, that kind of goes toward my thought about the crossover between the real world and the virtual world.
Jonathan HackettPANELIST
And, you know, for a long time, China has had the Confucius Institutes.
Jonathan HackettPANELIST
They've had student organizations.
Jonathan HackettPANELIST
There's a China center here that has-- it's actually, like, got funding from, uh, China, has Chi- students from China in it that are kind of promoting Chinese ideals, um, and some other things.
Emeka UmejeGUEST
I mean, when I looked at South African newspaper, I could see a lot of scholars.
Emeka UmejeGUEST
And then these scholars come from Confucius Institute, They come from any organization, any organization that has anything to do with the PRC.
Emeka UmejeGUEST
They come from media organizations being funded by PRC tax, you know, from the behind.
Emeka UmejeGUEST
So in the long run, now this competition agreement, they get activated when, you know, a PRC organization or a PRC, there's an incident in a particular country.
Emeka UmejeiGUEST
I mean, when I looked at South African newspaper, I could see a lot of scholars.
Emeka UmejeiGUEST
And then these scholars come from Confucius Institute, They come from any organization, any organization that has anything to do with the PRC.
Emeka UmejeiGUEST
They come from media organizations being funded by PRC, you know, from the behind.
Emeka UmejeiGUEST
So in the long run, now this competition agreement, they get activated when, you know, a PRC organization or a PRC, there's an incident in a particular country.
Liu XinHOST
How have the two countries continued to reach out to each other? Why do people-to-people exchanges matter, and how can they bring the two sides closer? I'm pleased to be joined by Ms.
Liu XinHOST
Rehab Mahmoud, head of the Chinese department and director of the Confucius Institute at Cairo University.
Liu XinHOST
Professor Rehab Mahmoud, welcome to The Point.
Liu XinHOST
Thank you.
Rehab MahmoudGUEST
At that time, you could say not many people knew about the Chinese language and not many understood China's position in the world.
Rehab MahmoudGUEST
But now, it's a completely different story.
Rehab MahmoudGUEST
Today, they come to us at the Confucius Institute on their own initiative to learn Chinese.
Rehab MahmoudGUEST
there are always many young people on our website wanting to study the language.
Mèrna Al NasserGUEST
at two.
Sherif AbdelsamieGUEST
And there's a lot of Confucius Institutes in Egypt and also expanding in the Arabic world.
Sherif AbdelsamieGUEST
There's a lot of education, especially Chinese, and not only the language itself, but for example, computer.
Sherif AbdelsamieGUEST
They're learning computer, but in Chinese.
Brandy ShufutinskyGUEST
I'm expecting that they're going to evolve into some other situation.
Brandy ShufutinskyGUEST
I mean, we saw this with indicators of it, at least with the Confucius Institutes and Confucius Classrooms.
Brandy ShufutinskyGUEST
And even in some of their communications, they admittedly said that they've created this network of partner organizations that then can continue to carry the torch to teach Arabic language and culture in our K-12 system.
Jonathan SchanzerHOST
Yeah.
Jeremy Wayne TateGUEST
He's a radical lefty kind of guy.
Jeremy Wayne TateGUEST
And he has given open praise himself to the Confucius Institutes and the Chinese Communist Party influence on the college board's AP curriculum.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
So hang on.
Stephen K. BannonHOST
Let's go back to the college board.
Marc ThiessenHOST
He allowed them to use Huawei to build the telecommunications.
Marc ThiessenHOST
He established Confucius Institutes at all his universities.
Marc ThiessenHOST
He's the only country in Europe taking Belt and Road money.
Marc ThiessenHOST
How, how does that undermine our ability to protect NATO, to protect our security? How does China use the sort of the economic lever to, uh, advance its military and intelligence purposes?
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