Mandarin Immersion Parents Council

The United States is not the only place that bans on Confucius Institutes, which often helped support Chinese teachers for immersion programs here, are going into effect.

The UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has backtracked on a pledge to close down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes across the country. 

During his unsuccessful bid last year to become leader of the Conservative party  a move before his promotion to Prime Minister, Sunak had promised to ban operations at the cultural schools, which stand accused of spreading propaganda and spying on students, amid ongoing political tensions with China. 

However last week, the UK government announced that it would be “disproportionate” to close the institutes, but a senior Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Iain Duncan Smith called the u-turn decision “ridiculous.” 

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