SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — China’s global campaign to win friends and influence policy has blossomed in a surprising place: Utah, a deeply religious and conservative state with few obvious ties to the world’s most powerful communist country.
Remember the Confucius Institutes? Those Chinese organizations which had classes on Chinese language and (extremely uncontroversial) Chinese culture. A bunch of Anglo countries freaked out about them being Chinese government influence ops and many got shut down.
This is a cycle.
Remember the Confucius Institutes? Those Chinese organizations which had classes on Chinese language and (extremely uncontroversial) Chinese culture. A bunch of Anglo countries freaked out about them being Chinese government influence ops and many got shut down.