.RepJimBanks demands answers on 'inadequate' DOD Confucius Institute waiver guidance: 'Agents' of the CCP
, a Republican, demanded answers from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin regarding the Defense Department’s "inadequate guidance" for colleges seeking waivers to host Confucius Institutes on campus while maintaining department funding.DOD guidance
"The Biden administration is again undermining Congress’s efforts to combat Chinese espionage and malign influence, just like they did with their fake TikTok bill and ongoing refusal to enforce Section 117 disclosure requirements," the Indiana Republican continued. Banks wrote that in"Sec. 1062 of the FY2021 NDAA, Congress prohibited the DOD from providing any funding to any institution of higher education that hosts a Confucius Institute after October 1, 2023" and that the"prohibition followed a more limited provision in the FY2019 NDAA."
Rep. Jim Banks pointed out that the March 28, 2023 guidance from DOD"offers conditions by which a U.S. university may receive DOD funds without closing any Confucius Institutes on campus," but while"the guidance imposes some restrictions on CIs for colleges to qualify for waivers, it also introduces significant loopholes and fails to take seriously the threat posed by CIs to national security.
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