‘Fight with all their might for the motherland.’ Chinese students are pressured into advancing Beijing’s interests in America.Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images|January 09, 2026Updated:January 09, 2026One of Beijing’s most notorious influence operations in Western academia came cloaked under the guise of traditional culture and under the name of Chinese sage Confucius.Those entities—state-sponsored Chinese language programs called Confucius Institutes operating on American campuses—have since been exposed as a Trojan horse for Beijing’s propaganda, and most have shut down across the United States.
Behind the Group That Controls Chinese Students in America
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