The 30 Confucius Institutes in the UK are “not a form of ‘soft power’”, but rather are “formally part” of the propaganda system of the Chinese Communist Party, a new report has said.
The report, by the Henry Jackson Society, details that the centres are “financially dependent upon funding from the Chinese Government and, in general, are subject to People’s Republic of China speech restrictions”.
The pro modern liberal democracy think-tank says that Confucius Institutes – which in the UK have received £33,426,300 in funding from Chinese sources – “engage in activities far beyond the remit of ‘language and culture’”.
