China’s Incursion onto US Campuses

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In May, Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation research fellow Peter Mattis published an op-ed in The Hill with Samantha Hoffman of the Mercator Institute for China Studies, exploring how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) manipulates its citizens and exiles.

By setting up harmless-sounding “Confucius Institutes” on foreign campuses, he writes the CCP is able to monitor and ultimately control the very people who are most exposed to notions of freedom and who might otherwise speak out.

“The very existence of a party branch on a US campus,” Mattis writes, “signals to overseas Chinese that they are still subject to the CCP’s restrictions.”