Waking up to China’s infiltration of American colleges：https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/waking-up-to-chinas-infiltration-of-american-colleges/2018/02/18/99d3bee8-13f7-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.644e20025cbe&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1
Waking up to China’s infiltration of American colleges
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How about some facts? I don't see any...
Please don't take us for FOX viewers.... we're better than that and expect better from a piece in the WaPo!
Confucius is a philosophy class in many countries, long before the Chinese govement sponsored school.
Also, if you check the number of publications in top scientific magazines and how faster the number grows, you could conclude we may need to send students learn in China soon.
Conclusion is this is a false alarm based on Cold War thinking and over estimated us share on technology. I would say with strong economic growth, lots of technologies can be bought from countries such as Ukraine or European countries
For example, in NC, where the state constitution requires that the "public universities be free to all residents" to the greatest extent possible -- but where the state Republican legislature and governor have cut funding to the point that tuition is out of reach for 50% to 60% of North Carolina students, and therefore an institution like Western Carolina University accepts a $5 or $10 million grant from the KOCH BROTHERS to create a "business and freedom institute" to promote capitalism -- without any study of the community responsibilities of businesses, or the way American businesses have welshed on their legal commitments and contracts to fund pensions, etc. etc. In fact, the Koch foundation people not only wrote the job descriptions for "professors," they have final say over hiring them. At a PUBLIC university that is supposed to be PUBLICLY funded.
So until we throw the right-wing, "I-love-the-poorly-educated" Republicans out of office in all fifty states and from both houses of Congress and from the White House, and elect pro-education Democrats to all offices, there will be pathetic university presidents and chancellors (like Margaret Spelling, who was installed as president of the UNC system by the NC legislature after her spectacularly failed "No Child Left Behind" leadership under Dubya Bush) who will drop their pants at the drop of a dime to get Chinese money.
This article is pure paranoia, bordering on racism. It talks about "Chinese efforts to subvert free societies," "Faustian bargains" (which, technically, would imply that China is the Devil), and "spying outposts," then presents nothing of the sort.
True, China should not be keeping tabs on Chinese students when these students are in the US. China should let things in the US be done the American way, with free speech and openness.
And in return, the US should let things in China be done the Chinese way -- but we don't even consider this. Instead of letting China follow its own cultural norms, which it has had for thousands of years, we demand that they do everything our way. And, we tell China to do as we say, not as we do. We don't lead by example. So, if we think China should stop using capital punishment, we say their use of capital punishment violates human rights. Meanwhile, *we* use capital punishment.
China has the world's largest population and is rapidly becoming the second most powerful country in the world. The US has *real* enemies to deal with, such as ISIS and their allies, who actually *do* want to destroy us. We have better things to do than pick a totally unnecessary fight with one of the most powerful countries in the world. When I attended a conference in Beijing (jointly sponsored by the US and Chinese governments) , a Chinese official there said, "China has long wanted to be the friend of the US. But the US has not reciprocated." Maybe it's time we reciprocated.
I would say that in your case, they were highly successful.
Chinese students have been attending them for decades. More to the point, U.S. corporations voluntarily, and with malice to American workers aforethought, have transferred American high tech knowledge and manufacturing methods and equipment to China.
And if folks are really worried about the Chinese funding "Confucius Institutes", end the GOP war on education, teachers, and science and fund higher education.
It's a whole new world out there.
China has been in it for the long haul for well over 5,000 years. a massive diaspora of Chinese whose insular value system and tribal focus conspire to retain these values and spread family tentacles throughout the world is primarily aimed at diversification of financial and social assets. But, the core cultural grid-map remains the same. They do not assimilate. And, are passively spreading their views as the government of China is actively propagating theirs in the learning centers that they so aggressively send their own students, officially and unofficially. This starts at the grade school level and extends through university. Chinese money floats most U.S. trophy schools now. The Chinese follow the money, and their hierarchical, top down social structure follows. We fought the East-West war at Thermopylae, Salamis and Marathon and are individuals and democratic first because of this. We are losing the second round in subtle, but inexorable ways that our collective naivete and willful ignorance is ill-equipped to combat. The Chinese are sopping up the critical future natural resources, exporting masses of humanity to labor in other countries, trading brilliantly to accumulate the foreign cash to buy America's assets, absorb missing knowhow and technology by providing the cheap labor, then cheap engineering as a foothold to absorb entire industries.
Our culture-shaping institutions... high schools and universities? We will soon be taught to conform, obey, submit, and live the Confucian Way.
We will soon decide whether to stand up to that lone tank in Tiananmen Square. Is our Statue of Liberty made of paper mache? Wake up America!
So, yes China consumes a lot of resources (although far less per person than the US), and yes, they are tough economic competitors. But wanting to force their culture on us, no. (Although the US does, in fact, try to force its culture on China.)
Stop being so afraid of other people. There are over seven billion of them in the world, and most of them want to get along with us.
Best to listen to those Policemen trying to keep America safe from foreign influences. After all if we allow Confucius Institutes on college campuses we don't want our students to recognize that they offer more than the college does. No Siree Bob! Too much book learnin' just ain't good for Americans. Look at our President.
No big deal.
Isn't THAT an attempt to influence how the next generation thinks too?
Certainly, there are instructors with political bias and if you prefer that bias you can take those courses.