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The Ideology Inﬁltration of the Chinese Communist Government

The Issue of the Confucius Institutes

An Outline by the Our Future House

November 2018

OUR FUTURE HOUSE

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About Our Future House

Who we are

Our Future House is based in Copenhagen, led by a board of members sharing a

steadfast commitment to the mission of Our Future House. The daily work of the

organisation is conducted by board members in Denmark, and ﬁeld ofﬁces around

Europe.

Our mission

The mission of the Our Future House is to anti-communism and revive the

traditional human values, acting as a catalyst and lubricant for a better world

through a combination of the events, investigation, analysis, truth appealing,

advocacy and action.

What we do

The organisation's non-partisan team comprises of the members and volunteers

from Europe in all walks of the ﬁelds, including business and labor leaders, former

scholars, and journalists, etc., who share the same value to the mission of Our

Future House and to the faith that the promotion of anti-communism and the

revival of the traditional human values are essential for the human future.

OUR FUTURE HOUSE

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Contents

Forward ………………………………………………………………………… 5

Overview ……………………………………………………………………… 7

Part one Confucius Institutes on Closing …………………………………… 9

Part two Reasons for rejecting Confucius Institutes ………………………… 11

Reason one: threats to national security …………………………………… 11

Reason two: academic freedom and integrity ………………………………… 12

Reason three: ideological invasion …………………………………………… 14

Part three Examples of the ideology invasion ……………………………… 16

1. Mao Praised in Confucius Institutes textbook …………………………… 16

2. Commits Patriotism in Confucius Institutes textbook …………………… 17

3. Canadian Confucius Institutes students Sings Revolutionary Song on CCTV

………………………………………………………………………………… 21

4. In the Hanban Ofﬁcial Document it states: All Confucius Institutes teachers

abroad are under direct control of local Chinese Embassy and consulates

…………………………………………………………………………… 22

5. Waterloo Confucius Director Rallies Students to Attack Tibet and Protect

the Chinese regime’s Image …………………………………………………… 22

Part four Brief analysis about the Confucius Institutes ……………………… 23

1. Impact of the Confucius Institutes as the Soft Power ……………………… 23

2. The approach of Chinese Communist study and research ………………… 24

3. Sticks and carrots strategy of Chinese Communist government …………… 26

Part ﬁve Recommendation to the Parliament………………………………… 26

1. Danish parliament needs to be seriously concerned about the issue ……… 28

2. Danish parliament needs to take an investigation on the scale of the inﬂuence of

the Confucius Institutes in Denmark ………………………………………… 28

3. The Danish legislative ministry needs to exercise an oversight ……………… 28

4. We propose the recommendation according to the NAS report on the Confucius

Institutes that all universities close their Confucius Institutes ……………… 29

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Foreword

By Marion Chen

The Chairman of the Our Future House

Confucius (551–479 BC ) is the most famous and prominent Chinese Educator and

Philosopher in the Chinese history. His quotations, such as No discrimination in

Education(有教無類) and When the great way prevails, the world community is

equally shared by all (⼤道之⾏也, 天下為公) , not only have been the principles of

the education, but also the symbolic life reﬂection of the human beings.

However, the Confucius philosophy has no chance to escape from the destiny of

being eradicated by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution

from 1966-1976. Thousands of status were being pulled down, millions of Confucius

books were burnt, and hundreds of thousand of believers were killed.

Thus, this is how all the genuine Chinese traditional culture and thought were

destroyed. Since then, the ideology that Chinese people are able to read, take and

receive is only the Chinese Communist Party culture interpreted from the

communism, input by the simplified Chinese eliminating the inside meaning of the

traditional Chinese which was built up from the philosophy of Confucius, Buddhism

and Tao School.

Why the Chinese Communist regime has been trying all its effort to set up Confucius

Institutes to the western countries after it has destroyed the Confucius ideology for

decades?

Quotes from the Communist Chinese officials will give a clear answer to the

question:

We need to make sure that all culture battle fields, all the cultural products and all

cultural events must promote the core values of socialism… — Liu Yunshan,

present head of Central Propaganda Department of China

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Confucius Institutes are an important part of China’s overseas propaganda set-up

—Li Changchu, former head of Central Propaganda Department of China

screen shot from a popular China Military Discussing Forum gives a better

illustration of the intention and purpose of the Confucius Institutes.

Title:

Confucius institute, A spark can start a prairie

Here is the translation:

“Why is our country building CI around the world? This is like after the Long March* where our

communist Party put people working on propaganda throughout China! When you understand, “A

spark can start a prairie fire,”

you will understand the importance of Confucius Institutes.”

*(“Long March” was an important part of communist history where Mao rallied every troop to unite

together to finally bring down the Kuomintang.)

The saying by Mao Zedong, "A spark can start a prairie fire" is well known in China. It means that

communism started with devote members here and there across the country like sparks spreading

Mao’s propaganda, which then caught on like prairie fire which lead to the defeat of the

Kuomintang.

The outline will give an overview about the affection of the Confucius Institutes and

worldwide concern of the issue, in order to arouse the attention and concern of the

Danish parliament to take consideration of the state security risk. Furthermore, we

recommend an effective action on the issue.

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Overview

The first Confucius Institute opened in South Korea in 2004.

According to the People’s Daily, the regime’s mouthpiece, calculations showed that

an average of one Confucius Institute or Confucius Classroom program was set up

every three days. Reports in the Chinese media on 11 March 2004 stated that the

head of the Confucius Institutes, Xu Lin, has said the institute plans to expand to

500 branches worldwide by 2020.

Since then, over 400 Confucius Institutes and 500 Confucius Classroom programs

(hosted at universities and schools respectively) have been set up globally, including

11 in Canada, 70 in the US, 11 in the UK, and at least 4 in Denmark.

Xu Lin, the head of the Confucius Institutes, is also the director of Hanban, a

branch of China’s Ministry of Education, controlling the Confucius Institutes in the

world, supplying money, teachers and Chinese-language instruction to the

universities.

The diagram bellow illustrates the relationship between the Confucius Institutes and

the Communist Chinese regime.

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The Confucius Institutes, set up to promote Chinese language and culture are

directly supported by the Communist Chinese regime under the administration of

Hanban, an organ afﬁliated with the Ministry of Education.

However, opposition to the programme has grown almost as dramatically. In

addition to claims that it has restrictive hiring practices, critics have accused the

Confucius Institutes of spreading propaganda about, among other things, issues

such as the legitimacy of the Taiwanese State and the origins of the Korean War.

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Part one

Confucius Institutes on Closing

The rejected Confucius Institutes (CI)in the world listed bellow shows that hight

attention has been aroused in the world about the impact of the Confucius

Institutes, both the impact of the state security and the western value system.

University of Toronto refused a CI

University of British Columbia rejected CI's outreach 3 times since 2004

University of Manitoba gave up the pursuit of a CI due to strong opposition from

faculty (http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/u-of-m-profs-fear-chinese-

agencys-intent-120762974.html)

McMaster University closed CI due to CI’s discrimination (http://

dailynews.mcmaster.ca/worth-mentioning/confucius-institute-will-complete-its-

work-at-mcmaster-this-summer/)

University of Sherbrooke in Quebec terminated its relationship with CI (http://

www.usherbrooke.ca/accueil/fr/international/institut-confucius/

University of Chicago faculty protested CI:) (http://chicagomaroon.com/

2014/05/02/confucius-insitute-protested-by-faculty/

Dickinson State U. Reverses Decision on Confucius Institute (http://

chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/dickinson-state-u-reverses-decision-on-confucius-

institute/40412)

University of Pennsylvania Rejected CI (http://www.thedp.com/index.php/

article/2011/11/confucius_institutes_to_be_reconsidered_by_penn)

Over 20,000 Sydney residents signed petition to oppose CI (http://

www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/hansart.nsf/V3Key/

LA20111013031?open&refNavID=HA8_1)

More attention about the Confucius Institutes has been aroused worldwide, such as:

Washington D.C., USA, Aug. —

The Department of Defence has been prohibited

from funding Confucius Institutes or any schools that host CIs in America.

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Washington D.C., USA, Aug. —

CIs has been identiﬁed as one of the tools used by

the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department to exert inﬂuence

operation in America.

Florida, USA, Aug. —

The University of North Florida will close its Confucius

Institute early next year—the 7th university in America and the 17th in the world to

cut ties with CIs.

London, UK, Jun. —

The Conservative Party Human Rights Commission, whose

chair Fiona Bruce MP and Deputy Chair Benedict Rogers hosted the parliament

screening and panel discussion of my ﬁlm, will release an investigative report into

the Confucius Institutes later this year.

Sydney, Australia, Jun. —

While In the Name of Confucius premiered in the New

South Wales parliament, the Education Minster has conﬁrmed that NSW's review of

its Confucius Classroom program in K-12 schools could lead to the end of the

partnership between the NSW government and the Chinese government.

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Part two

Reasons for rejecting Confucius Institutes

Reason one: threats to national security

Richard Fadden, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service - the

Canadian equivalent of the UK’s MI5 - has gone on record with the Canadian

government’s concerns over the institutes.

Interviewed on CBC television in 2010, Mr Fadden said that China’s lobbyists were

funding Confucius Institutes in most of the campuses across Canada , that the

institutes were managed by people operating out of the embassy or consulates -

nobody knows that the Chinese authorities are involved and that they had

organised demonstrations to deal with what are called the ﬁve poisons: Taiwan,

Falun Gong and others .

In United States of America, Texas A&M close its Confucius Institutes came in an

open letter from U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar, a Democrat, and Michael

McCaul, a Republican. The two congressmen, who both represent Texas, said they

sent the letter to four Texas universities that host the institutes, including A&M.

Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp issued a four-sentence statement saying that he

would heed the congressmen’s recommendation.

The letter from the two Texas congressmen cites testimony from Federal Bureau of

Investigation director Christopher Wray, who told the Senate Intelligence

Committee in February that the FBI has concerns about Confucius Institutes and in

some cases has developed appropriate investigative steps" in relation to them.

Wray’s comment came in response to questioning from U.S. senator Marco Rubio, of

Florida, who has emerged as a particularly vocal critic of the Confucius Institutes.

Rubio, a Republican, in February sent letters to colleges in his state urging them to

close their Confucius Institutes. U.S. representative Seth Moulton, a Democrat

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representing Massachusetts, has also written to Massachusetts universities

encouraging them to cut their Confucius Institute ties, according to The Boston

Globe.

In the incipient cold war with China, the critical discourse on Confucius Institutes

has shifted from academic freedom to spying, having been taken over from the

academics and the universities by conservative politicians and state security

agencies, Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of

Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Chicago and a critic of Confucius

Institutes on academic freedom- and integrity-related grounds, said via email.

Sahlins, author of the pamphlet Confucius Institutes: Academic Malware, said that

in recent weeks he'd been contacted by two U.S. congressional committees that are

looking into the institutes.

Marco Rubio, a member of the Senate intelligence committee in USA, points out

also contends that Confucius Institutes are used to identify students who could

China’s ruling party to eclipse American power.

that Confucius Institutes present a threat to academic freedom and a spy risk. He

become agents of Chinese inﬂuence . He warns that it is part of broader strategy by

Reason two: academic freedom and integrity have been violated

Example Case:

West’s universities of Canada began operations at McMaster in 2008,

providing an extracurricular programme of study on which some 140

students are currently enrolled.

The most controversy over the Confucius Institutes has flared up in Canada

2012, where one university is shutting down the programme on its campus

because of a human rights complaint and two more have declined to serve

as hosts.

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McMaster University in Hamilton, near Toronto, will close its Confucius

Institute when the current term ends this summer, citing the institute’s

requirement that its instructors have no affiliation to organisations that the

Chinese government has banned, including the spiritual movement Falun

Gong.

McMaster officials said the decision to close their university’s Confucius

Institute was the result of a complaint against the university brought before

the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 2012 by a former instructor in the

programme, Sonia Zhao. She said her contract with the Confucius Institute

forced her to conceal her adherence to Falun Gong and to avoid discussing

certain topics with her students.

Zhao, a Chinese citizen, has since been granted refugee status in Canada.

Andrea Farquhar, the university’s assistant vice-president of public and government

affairs, says that Zhao’s complaint was an important issue for us because of the

kinds of expectations we have about human rights here . She adds that attempts

were made to negotiate a solution but none could be reached.

It’s not about the academic work that was being done or the quality of the teaching

or the students’ ability to get a lot out of the courses, Farquhar says. This is about

the hiring process.

Farquhar, says she was not aware of any other complaints about the institute.

Elsewhere, however, critics both inside the academy and beyond have registered

their concerns.

Hans-Joerg Tiede, the associate secretary for academic freedom, tenure and

governance at the AAUP, said of Confucius Institutes, We have concerns about

their operations, but we also have concerns about politicians telling universities

what to do.

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He said the decision to shutter the Confucius Institutes at Texas A&M raises

concerns about institutional autonomy. Decisions of that kind ought to be made

within the university using shared governance.

Reason three: ideological invasion

Confucius Institutes courses reﬂect that there is an absence of traditional Chinese

language and an absence of traditional Chinese yoga, or qigong, in their traditional

Chinese medicine program (most likely a deliberate attempt to rule out teaching

Falun Gong).

The Confucius Institutes model, unlike other models is attachment to universities or

other educational institutions, thus leading to suspicions the institutes are "aimed

less at fostering interest in China and Chinese culture itself, and more at ensuring

that such interest is guided along lines approved of by the Chinese party-state.

Author and Social Scientist, Steven Mosher notes: "Unlike Alliance Franchise, the

Confucius Institutes are not independent from their government; unlike the Goethe-

Institute establishments, they do not occupy their own premises. Instead,

participating universities agree to provide ofﬁce space in exchange for funding, and

to cede academic control to the United Front Work Department of the Chinese

Communist Party.

Martin Davidson, chief executive of the British Council, criticised comparisons

between his institution and Confucius Institutes. "We are a stand-alone organisation

operating out of our own premises. They are being embedded in university

campuses. The real question has to be one of independence." Davidson said while

the Chinese are very clear about wanting to combat negative propaganda with

positive propaganda, "The danger is more of self-censorship — which is a very

subtle thing.

Jocelyn Chey, a former diplomat and expert in Australia-China relations, stated the

Confucius Institutes are more closely managed by its government compared with its

French counterpart. She states Confucius Institute is "a propaganda vehicle for the

Chinese communist party, and not a counterpart to the Goethe Institute or Alliance

Franchise", and speculates the close links between the institutes and the Chinese

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Communist Party "could lead at best to a 'dumbing down' of research and at worst

could produce propaganda." On the other hand, The Sydney Morning Herald cites a

Queensland University of Technology student: "It would be best to understand

[Confucius institutes] not as 'propaganda tools' but as 'one instrument of China's

cultural diplomacy to wield and bolster Chinese soft power globally'".

June Teufel Dreyer, a professor of political science at the University of Miami who

previously taught at the University of British Columbia, says that Confucius

Institutes have distorted history, by, for example, inviting speakers to universities in

Australia to shill for the government and talk about how happy all the Tibetans

were . Meanwhile, she says, there were all these self-immolations happening by

Tibetans protesting Chinese control of the country.

Confucius Institute instructional material, some of it recently removed from the

organisation’s website, has included suggestions that the US drew China into the

Korean conﬂict by bombing Chinese villages near the border with Korea.

And an Israeli court ruled in 2009 that Tel Aviv University’s decision the previous

year to shut down an art exhibition depicting Chinese government oppression of the

Falun Gong stemmed from the university’s fear that it would lose funding for its

Confucius Institute from Beijing.

It’s always assumed that [university] students are capable of distinguishing

propaganda from objective analysis. I’m not sure that’s true, Dreyer says. Some of

them can. Others do not.

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Part three

Examples of the ideology invasion

1. Mao Praised in Confucius Institutes textbook

Chinese is a children's text book especially requested by Hanban and the Overseas

Chinese Affairs Ofﬁce as part of their special textbook project to be written by Jinan

University as stated on their website.

In Lesson 8 of Book VI , The song titled

state:

I love Beijing Tiananmen 

Tiananmen where sun's risen 

Our mighty leader Chairman Mao 

Leading all of us forward

I love Beijing Tiananmen, The lyrics

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2. Commits Patriotism in Confucius Institutes textbook

The Communist Party uses patriotic enthusiasm to justify suppression of minority

groups. It is shown in below passage from this approved as outstanding Confucius

Institute text book:

In this Confucius Institute text book titled, A Key to Chinese Speech and Writing,

also considered outstanding international Chinese language teaching materials in

the 5th Confucius institute conference, communist party propaganda is also found,

where it states: Against Revolution is counterrevolutionary. It also states,

Confucianism Used To Be rightful Chinese thinking. (Scholars, teachers,

Intellectuals, religious leaders etc. were called counter revolutionary during Mao’s

revolutions and humiliated. Millions were killed.

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This video titled: "The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea," was found on

the ofﬁcial Confucius Institute Online website under the CI homepage’s "Chinese

Learning for Kids ＆ Teens" section.

The ﬁlm "declares that the Chinese were provoked into entering the war because the

United States had bombed Chinese villages near the Korean border, and had

manipulated the UN Security Council into passing a resolution that enabled

American troops to expand aggression against Korea. 

After the video link began circulating on Twitter the CI website deleted the webpage

on the cache copies remain available. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13k3AEjHNR0

Waterloo CI students unknowingly sing a communist song, at a Chinese New Year

celebration in 2008

The theme song of an award winning kids movie published during the Cultural

Revolution in 1974. The movie tells a story of how a young boy became a Red Army

soldier of the CCP. It incites hatred to the landlord and instills violence to young

children. In the movie the boy killed the landlord full of hatred. All landlords were

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painted by the CCP as murderous bullies. 

红星照我去战�½� Red Stars Illuminate Me to Fight

…

党的教导记⼼头 Chinese communist party’s teaching imprinted in my mind

…

前赴后继跟党⾛ One after another go with the party.

前赴后继跟党⾛ One after another go with the party

砸碎万恶的旧世界

Smash the evil old world.

Smash the evil old world

On March 16 2013, at the Confucius Institute at University of Michigan during a

Concert of Chinese Art and Folk Songs a student sings a song from 1952 titled,

There raises the sun that never sets on the prairie.

The song is supposedly a Mongolian song praising Mao, however it was Mao who

was responsible for the suppression of the Mongolians. (Please see lyrics).

http://vimeo.com/66094392# 03:05 

Lyrics:

歌唱⾃⼰的新�½�活

歌唱共產黨

�½�主席呀共產黨

They sing about their new life 

They sing about the great Communist Party 

Ah, Chairman Mao! Ah, the Party! 

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撫育我們成⾧

You nurture the people on this land. 

CI students at the University of Minnesota perform ballet titled: The Red

Detachment of Women

The Red Detachment of Women (Chinese: 红⾊娘⼦军) is a Chinese ballet which

premiered in 1964 and was made by Mao’s wife into one of the Eight Model Operas

which were the only permitted form of art in China during the Cultural Revolution

to brainwash the nation to swear allegiance to communism and destroy all previous

traditional Chinese culture, including Confucianism.

This Model Opera incites hatred to the landlord who was painted by the CCP as

despotic. The opera promotes peasants to rise up and kill all landlords, which is

what happened during the Cultural Revolution.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151748256467033&set=pb.

310671552032.-2207520000.1387048950.&type=3&theater

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3. Canadian Confucius Institutes students Sings Revolutionary Song on

CCTV

In Feb 2013 Thomas Glenn, introduced as Confucius Institute student, sang the

song, "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy," one of the eight red operas created by

Mao’s wife during the Cultural Revolution, at a famous Chinese New Year

celebration. The Party gives me wisdom, gives me courage…Raid the bandits’ lair,

absolutely turn it upside down!

Xing Lu, a scholar of communications at DePaul University says one of the main

features of Chinese communist red operas is the incitement to hatred. Hatred

permeates every model opera, she writes. The plays were meant to foster a deep

hatred for all class enemies (who were whom ever Mao felt like targeting in society,)

and love for the Communist Party, Lu writes.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/canadian-performs-red-opera-at-

beijing-propaganda-show-346600.

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4. In the Hanban Ofﬁcial Document it states: All Confucius Institutes

teachers abroad are under direct control of local Chinese Embassy and

consulates.

5. Waterloo Confucius Director Rallies Students to Attack Tibet and Protect

the Chinese regime’s Image

In 2008 after the violent attack on Tibetan protesters by the Chinese communist

Party, Waterloo Confucius Institute director, Yan Li, rallied her students to work

together to ﬁght with Canadian media, after reports surfaced on the regimes

unnecessary use of brutal force. Yan used class time to explain the history of Tibet

and its current situation, showing students a map with Tibet clearly inside China.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/world/canadian-spymaster-fadden-warns-

confucius-institutes-aim-to-teach-more-than-language-39243.html

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Part four

Brief analysis about the Confucius Institutes

1. Impact of the Confucius Institutes as the Soft Power

The origin term of the Soft Power may ﬁrstly presented by Joseph Nye of Harvard

University. He coined the term in a 1990 book, Bound to Lead: The Changing

Nature of American Power, in which he wrote: when one country gets other

countries to want what it wants-might be called co-optive or soft power in contrast

with the hard or command power of ordering others to do what it wants.

He further developed the concept in his 2004 book, Soft Power: The Means to

Success in World Politics. The term is now widely used in international affairs by

analysts and statesmen. In 2012, he explained that with soft power, "the

best propaganda is not propaganda", further explaining that during the Information

Age, "credibility is the scarcest resource.

It is obvious that this term soon has become the learning course of Chinese

Communist regime which is based on a complete opposite ideology and mentality.

The term has been adopted and used in another way through Confucius Institutes

set up ﬁrstly in South Korea in 2004.

Three years later, the ﬁrst Confucius Institute established in Denmark in November

2007, a cooperation between Copenhagen Business School and Renmin University

of China. The link

http://english.hanban.org/node_8995.htm

shows that Hanban

is the cooperative partner from China part.

In 2009, Confucius Institute for Innovation Learning at Aalborg University

(CI-AAU) became the second one in Denmark. The partner from China is Confucius

Institutes Headquarter, Hanban, Beijing Normal University and Chinese

Scholarship Council (CSC).

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In 2012, started the third one Music Confucius Institute (MCI) at Royal Danish

Academy of Music in Denmark. The partner of China is the Central Conservatory of

Music in Beijing.

The cooperation projects of the Confucius Institutes in Denmark as stated ofﬁcially

include scholarship program of PH.D fellowship, short term visit to China

fellowship, international conference grant, Chinese visiting scholar to AAU

fellowship, Chinese language teaching, and to create understanding and synergy

between Western and Chinese music culture.

The point is that why the western world realised so slowly in ﬁnding out the risk of

the academic freedom? This illicit the issue of the usage of the western concepts such

as brainwashing and soft power.

Anne-Marie Brady, the professor of the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, is

a Chinese expert who can speak Chinese. She was invited by the Department of

International Economics Government and Business (EGB)/Asia Research Centre of

CBS in October 2018. She addressed in her presentation titled Facing the new

geopolitics: China as a polar great power that what Chinese Communist ofﬁcials

declared or mentioned ofﬁcially or on the surface is not at all what they really

meant underneath. This is completely true and comes to the core point of the failure

in the western countries foreign affairs negotiation with Chinese Communist regime.

As a result, the impact of the Confucius Institutes which many of the western

Chinese experts most of whom are not able to speak Chinese would consider it could

be positive, in terms of how the Chinese Communist ofﬁcials presented and

addressed on surface. However, the reality is that the impact turns out in the

violation of the western academic freedom and the state security.

2. The approach of the Chinese Communist study and research

The fast establishment of Confucius Institutes around the world and the rapid react

of adopting the western concept shows that the Chinese Communist regime power

maintainers are fast learners. Unfortunately, they used what they have adopted and

learnt from the western new concept in its own way to subvert the western value

system.

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Marion Chen, a Chinese political refugee in Denmark, has been through a seven-

year imprisonment due to her persistence of the spiritual cultivation Falun Gong.

Before and during her imprisonment, she experienced the brutal mental torture in

terms of brainwashing. The core points of her experience is that the Chinese

Communist government spent incredible ﬁnance and human resource in doing the

psychological studying and researching to convert the Falun Gong practitioners to

stop their belief of the truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. (please refer to the

link: https://youtu.be/-fFww4ZtCIo, http://danskpen.dk/ny-dansk-pen-antologi-

ord-paa-ﬂugt-udkommer-11-november/)

Moreover, the Confucius ideology was also misused on purpose as an approach in

the brainwashing process in the prison. The Chinese Communist regime failed in

converting Marion Chen’s faith, since she has been a fans of Confucius and Falun

Gong practice is also based on the Buddha school, so she could not be easily

confused in the concept of the ideology. However, it did succeed in brainwashing

many people, either Chinese or westerners who don’t know much about the

distinction between the Chinese traditional culture and the Chinese Communist

Party culture.

According to the reality, it is clear that the western governments serve the states in a

complete different form compare with the Chinese Communist government. The

western state policies, which have to be transparent in all means of the supervision,

mostly are based on the datas, ﬁgures, surveys from the study and research of the

academic documents from the campuses, institutes and foundations organisations.

For example, the research report of theThe Rockwool Foundation about the

employment of the refugees in the Danish labour market provides the data and

ﬁgures to support the Danish immigration policy, including the acceptance of the

refugees.

Unfortunately, this approach and administration model has been well studied,

researched and analysed, and also well misused as the hole of the western system in

the interference and inﬂuence of the Chinese Communist government, such as

Confucius Institutes.

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To be neutral, Chinese Communism is not only the danger of the western world, but

also the killer of Chinese people and traditional Chinese culture based on Confucius,

Tao School and Buddhism.

Thus, the current rebalancing in the ﬁght of the traditional human value with the

evil communism ideology must be read as an urgent call to action for us — the

leaders, diplomats, foreign policy makers, and of cause the Chinese who have

survived from killing of the Chinese Communist regime. We need to take

responsibility to defend human value with no question.

3. Sticks and carrots strategy of Chinese Communist government

According to the DR report dated 28 November 2018, Tidligere betjent:

Udenrigsministeriet bad politiet om indgreb ved Kina-besøg, it gives a strong

message of how the Chinese Communist government plays the tricks on the Danish

government, even though most Danish people, no matter politicians or citizens

would like to consider the case as merely regarding to the Danish domestic affairs

— it is the Danes’ business, nothing relates to the China.

Our Future House looks at the case from another perspective due to the true

experience with the victims who have been through the torture and mental torture

of the Chinese Communist regime, such as human rights lawyers in China, Uyghur,

Tibetans and Falun Gong practitioners in China.

Chinese Communist government is used to the means of sticks and carrots to

suppress Chinese people domestically. On the one hand, it promises to bring better

living conditions to the people, not only through all the means of the political

propaganda, but also tries to absorb all kinds of western investment to create a

market which it can rule by its own rules.

This is how it binds its fate and destiny with the western world in the economical

approach, in a way just like a wife and a husband, well destructs the capitalism

system for its own use. The best example can be that 20 years after the Chinese

Communist government became the member of WTO, the USA government has

found out that Chinese Communist government will never realise what it has

promised on the day it joined the WTO.

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Now the Chinese Communist government is not only powerful in the economical

situation, but also powerful on the international stage. It has the one vote veto in

the UN Human Rights Council and its power, now we can obviously see, is granted

by the western world due to the ignorance of a real Chinese Communist regime’s

ambition and intention.

The intention of the development in China is hard to tell because the condition to

enjoy the developing environment is the loyalty and the bowing down to the Chinese

communism. Anyone who dare to declare the criticism can absolutely get into

trouble.

So, on the other hand, Chinese Communist government violates the basic human

rights of all the Chinese people, no matter rich or poor, high positioned ofﬁcials or

common people, through the approach of double standard utilisation of the law

system. The prisons, labour camps, brainwashing centres and concentration camps

are used for the law-abiding citizens who are persistent on their faith, private

property, and other basic human rights.

This happens not only in China, but also in the western countries. Tibet Case in

Denmark can be a very symbolic case to identify. Furthermore, all the western

democratic countries have an agreement with the Chinese Communist regime on the

human rights issue since 1999 regarding the Falun Gong issue: they can only talk

about the China human rights issue under the table with Chinese Communist

government, but never criticise Chinese Communist government openly and

publicly, otherwise they will annoy the Chinese and break bilateral ties and business

cooperations, because China is really a very, very big market.

As a result, the western media came to a strange silence about the persecution of

Falun Gong, which the Chinese Communist government insulted it as cults and

most the western media has reprinted the insult in their mainstream medias since

1999. Recently, it is easy to see that the concentration camp in Xinjiang now is a

complete copy cat of the persecution Chinese Communist regime has used for 20

years to eradicate and genocide Falun Gong practitioners.

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Part ﬁve

Recommendations to the parliament

1. Danish parliament needs to be seriously concerned about the issue.

Every level of government should be concerned about the repressive Chinese

Communist regime trying to inﬁltrate the education system with its politically

tainted culture and language courses through Confucius Institutes, which can

gradually change the western values without the awareness, especially by the cover

of the economic development.

2. Danish parliament needs to take an investigation on the scale of the

inﬂuence of the Confucius Institutes in Denmark.

The parliament should open an investigation of Confucius Institutes and inquire

whether Danish interests are jeopardised by these institutes. It is important to have

a survey on the amount of the investment of Hanban for the Confucius Institutes

budget in Denmark each year, so it can be easy to ﬁnd out how much the Confucius

Institutes in Denmark can beneﬁt the Danish education and scholar employment,

both nationally and individually.

The parliament also should ask universities to turn over copies of their agreements

with the Hanban and their partner Chinese universities.

3. The Danish legislative ministry needs to exercise an oversight.

An investigations on all public universities with a Confucius Institute needs to be

held by the Danish legislatures ministry.

The parliament should evaluate risks to national security. It should consider

whether Confucius Institutes increase the risks of a foreign government espionage or

collecting sensitive information. If the national security risk exists in USA, it will of

cause exist in any other countries in cooperation with the Confucius Institutes.

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Danish parliament should also investigate the Chinese government’s use of

Confucius Institutes to monitor, intimidate, and harass Chinese students and the

visiting scholars. Danish parliament should evaluate whether Confucius Institutes

improperly curtail students’ and the visiting scholars’ freedom to study and freedom

of speech.

According to the report of Radio 24syv, Aalborg Universitet har tæt samarbejde med

spion-mistænkt universitet i Kina, the risk of national security has been aroused.

However, this sort of issue has already been highly concerned in the United States of

America. The cooperation between the western universities and the university in

China with a background of spy basis has been warned by the US congressmen and

Chinese experts.

The Confucius Institutes issue has already been taken serious consideration in USA.

The link here can give a clear view on the issue: https://www.nas.org/images/

documents/confucius_institutes/NAS_confuciusInstitutes.pdf

4. We propose the recommendation according to the NAS report on the

Confucius Institutes that all universities close their Confucius Institutes.

Since the exchange students project between Denmark and China has been wildly

executed and deeply promoted into the regional municipality level, large amount of

Danish students from Danish high schools have been to China for a three or six

months exchange study, and thus no evaluation and investigation have been held on

the project from all perspective, and this may make it difﬁcult to have the colleges

and universities to aware what is going on.

If the college or university refuses to close its Confucius Institute, we recommend the

parliament to take the recommendations speciﬁcally pointed out in the report of

NAS as bellow:

1. Provide transparency. Make available for easy download all memoranda of

understanding, contracts, and other agreements between the university and the

Hanban, or between the university and the Chinese partner institution. Annually

disclose how much funding the university receives from the Hanban or the

Chinese partner institution for the Confucius Institute, and disclose how much

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the host university contributes (separating in kind contributions from real

expenses). Disclose all trips, honours, and awards bestowed on university

ofﬁcials by agencies of the Chinese government.

Ensure that all Confucius Institutes budgets are separate from university

budgets, and that all Confucius Institute events are advertised as such. As much

as possible, Confucius Institutes should be distinguished from their host

institutions. Confucius Institute events should not be listed on university

calendars, promoted on the university website, or used as assignments or count

toward extra credit for students. The Hanban considers Confucius Institutes

standalone nonproﬁt organisations, yet houses them in universities and beneﬁts

from the status and prestige of the university. Reduce this free-riding.

Ensure that Chinese language classes are taught by professors or instructors

selected and paid by the university. Cease outsourcing for-credit courses to the

Hanban.

Formally ask the Hanban if its hiring process complies with Danish

nondiscrimination policies. Does the Hanban prioritise members of the

Communist Party? Are members of Falun Gong still excluded? Is the selection

based purely on merit? Ask the Hanban for a formal written answer.

Renegotiate contracts to remove constraints against tarnishing the reputation

of the Hanban. Scholarship should be civil, but it should not be constrained by

the fear of punishment for offending Chinese sensitivities.

Change the wording of all contracts to clarify that legal disputes should be

settled only in the jurisdiction of the host institution (in our cases, American

courts). Add language specifying that in all disputes of Chinese and Danish law,

Danish law takes priority. The Hanban should assume legal liability if it violates

Danish law when operating a Confucius Institute in Denmark.

Require that all Confucius Institutes offer at least one public lecture or class

each year on topics that are important to the genuine Chinese history but are

currently neglected, such as the Tiananmen Square protests or the Dalai Lama’s

views on Tibet and the persecution of Falun Gong. Ensure that these programs

are fair, balanced, and free of external pressures.

Include in orientation for every Confucius Institute teacher and Chinese director

the university’s policies on academic freedom. Ensure that all teachers enjoy the

same rights.

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9. Make the Confucius Institute director’s position a voluntary service position,

with no additional pay, thereby reducing ﬁnancial pressures for Confucius

Institutes directors to cater to the Hanban’s preferences.

Our Future House’s primary recommendation is that Danish universities and

schools with Confucius Institutes or Classrooms, such as Copenhagen Chinese

classroom, should close the centers and end all contracts with Hanban. We are

going to urge a reform together with the other Danish organisations to protect the

integrity of Danish education and intellectual freedom, and stop the inﬁltration of

the Chinese Communist government.

We also recommend the parliament members, especially the education and foreign

affairs spokesmen of all the parties to have a watch of a documentary ﬁlm titled In

the Name of Confucius.

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Appendix

1. Richard Fadden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institutes

https://www.theepochtimes.com/hosting-confucius-institute-a-bad-idea-says-

intelligence-veteran_1018292.html

2. Michael McCaul & Henry Cuellar

https://cuellar.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=402087

3. Texas A&M chancellor John Sharp

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/04/09/texas-am-cuts-ties-confucius-

institutes-response-congressmens-concerns

4. Marco Rubio

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2018/03/15/rubio-wants-higher-ed-

act-take-confucius-institutes

5. Steven Mosher

https://jamestown.org/program/confucius-institutes-and-the-question-of-chinas-

soft-power-diplomacy/

6. Andrea Farquhar

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/mcmaster-closing-

confucius-institute-over-hiring-issues/article8372894/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/headlines/mcmaster-cuts-chinese-

institute-worried-by-discrimination-1.1321862

7. Joseph Nye & softpower

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power

8. Anne-Marie Brady

https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-

international-economics-government-and-business/asia-research-centre/china

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9. The Rockwool Foundation

“Arbejdsmarkedstilknytningen for ﬂygtninge og indvandrere – ankommet

til Danmark i perioden fra 1997 til 2011”. ROCKWOOL Fondens

Forskningsenhed og Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2016.