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Pompeo hopeful China's Confucius Institutes will be gone from U.S. by year-end

2020-09-02 09:02:31       source:Reuters

September 2, 2020


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday he was hopeful that Chinese Confucius Institute cultural centers on U.S. university campuses would all be shut down by the end of the year.


“I think everyone’s coming to see the risk associated with them,” Pompeo told Lou Dobbs on the Fox Business Network, accusing the Chinese-government funded institutes of working to recruit “spies and collaborators” at U.S. colleges.


“I think these institutions can see that, and I’m hopeful we will get them all closed out before the end of this year.”


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