“As a country, we have enjoyed a cordial relationship with the People’s Republic of China, and the establishment of the Confucius Institute at the University of Zimbabwe is a testimony to that.”

Source: https://www.thezimbabwemail.com/education/zimbabwean-students-compete-in-chinese-bridge-language-competition/

China has established Confucius Institutes in a host of foreign countries and, on the surface, they don’t seem to be that different from the United States Information Service, the British Council or Alliance Française.

Source: https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/myanmar-regime-learning-from-chinas-expertise-at-media-manipulation.html

He also noted that under former President Donald Trump, the State Department in designated Confucius Institutes a 'foreign mission,' which helped shut down some of these 'dangerous programs.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12344745/Chinas-indoctrination-American-schools-make-Little-Red-Classrooms-Communist-Party-funneled-17-MILLION-143-K-12-schools-sparking-Republican-probe.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Jesus, Buddha, Confucius, Muhammad, my husband, and Dr Sun Myung Moon.

Source: https://cranbournenews.starcommunity.com.au/news/2023-12-30/womens-federation-for-world-peace-wfwp-president-anne-bellavance/

Of course, Socrates and Confucius and Jesus were all failures.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/books/review/writers-failure-joyce-melville-boethius.html

So, the Chinese have a propaganda arm and that propaganda arm uses things like the Confucius Institutes and supports to high schools, educational stuff, programs to the high schools.

Source: https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/08/11/its-little-late-lawmaker-says-bidens-executive-order-us-investments-chinese-technology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=its-little-late-lawmaker-says-bidens-executive-order-us-investments-chinese-technolog

This close call could be poetic justice, to paraphrase the Confucius quote: “Seek revenge and you should dig two graves.”

Source: https://collider.com/kevin-williamson-psycho-parents/