US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth accused the Confucius Institutes of secretly operating as 'propaganda cells' across American universities in a video address from Washington DC on Friday, claiming 80 organisations resurfaced under new names, stealing intellectual property and influencing students.
"These Chinese government-backed propaganda cultural programmes had infiltrated our nation's universities in almost every state," Hegseth said, alleging that the organisations returned under different identities.
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