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presumably the language classes are not the activity they are worried about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institu...
They don’t seem to be terribly clear on what they are worried about, if this article is to be taken at face value. The closest thing to a legitimate concern they can manage to cough up is that China might be stealing American research — but if that’s the case, why aren’t we more worried about other countries (say, ones that have less in the way of their own research resources than China)? Edit: thanks for adding the…
China, for example, has acquired proprietary technology and early-stage ideas through cyberenabled means. At the same time, some actors use largely legitimate, legal transfers and relationships to gain access to research fields, experts, and key enabling industrial processes that could, over time, erode America’s long-term competitive advantages
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