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Confucius Institutes go beyond borders (7)

By Qu Yingpu, Zhao Huanxin and Cheng Yingqi  (China Daily)

14:45, December 03, 2012

In November, the Confucius Institute Headquarters launched a new project, the Confucius China Study Plan, which supports foreign students seeking to complete PhD programs in designated academic areas of the humanities and social sciences in China, or sponsors experts and outstanding students for short-term exchanges.

"The project will help cultivate local teachers who could play a key role at the Confucius Institutes in their home countries, so that development of the institutes will be more sustainable," Xu said.

Confucius Institutes' work is misunderstood from time to time. Steven W. Mosher, a China specialist in the US, once called Confucius Institutes "Trojan Horses with Chinese characteristics" in his essays.

On May 17, without consulting China, the US government signed a controversial visa policy directive, according to which any teachers in US Confucius Institutes holding a J-1 visa would be forced to leave the US in six weeks.

The policy affected at least 51 Chinese teachers out of the 600 employed by the 81 Confucius Institutes across the US at the time.


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