Pentagon adds Confucius Institutes and 80 linked entities to its national security threat list
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the Pentagon added the Confucius Institutes and 80 linked entities to its list of organizations considered a threat to national security. According to Hegseth, these China-funded centers operated covertly at 30 universities in the country to steal intellectual property and influence students, and adopted other names to evade congressional restrictions. The Defense Department said it dismantled those organizations over the past two months.
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- The Pentagon added the Confucius Institutes and 80 linked entities to its list of threats to U.S. national security.
- Hegseth said they operated covertly at 30 universities to steal intellectual property and influence students.
- According to the official, they adopted other names and bylaws to evade restrictions approved by Congress.
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