I am absolutely dumbfounded how this idiot left wing statist liberal can lampoon the technocratic state run enterprise about "unintended consequences" on this policy, and yet not understand that the same thing applies to every other state run enterprise he shills for.
Kinda like the unintended consequences of tariffs.
Comparing a little protectionism, to policies of technocrats is the height of being obtuse.
Americanism has a long history of protectionism. It does not, however, have a history of full government take over of large swaths of the economy and parts of individuals' private lives.
Stop being so hyperbolic to push your goddamed leftist/statist/bureacratic agenda.
This particular piece is obviously just anti-chinese propaganda. Who gives a shit what the Chinese do? It is obviously there to get Americans pissed at China. I am sure the Chinese put out unflattering propaganda about how our government is involved in war crimes that John Oliver never covers because he is a shill of the corporate structure. He should spend more time worried about real shit that should concern Americans, not this distraction shit.
When it comes to propaganda, the Chinese are second to none.
GOOD:
Another Chinese ‘propaganda’ center shutters amid US-China tensions.
- The University of Delaware has joined a growing number of universities that have forced to shut down their Chinese funded Confucius Institutes.
- Universities across the country are being forced to close their institutes after Congress banned them from receiving Department of Defense funding due to concerns about the institutes' furnishing of Chinese Communist Party propaganda.
They even had us funding it.
Student newspaper
The Review reveals that the University of Delaware’s institute will shutter in February 2020, following more than 15 other universities that have closed their Confucius Institutes after U.S. intelligence agencies raised concerns that the entities were spreading propaganda for the Chinese Communist Party under the guise of educating students on Chinese language and culture.
Former Chinese government official and propaganda minister Liu Yushan admitted that the Chinese government uses Confucius Institutes to “actively carry out international propaganda battles against issues such as Tibet, Xinjiang, Taiwan, human rights and Falun gong,” according to a 2018
Politico report.
"The [Chinese Communist Party] provides ‘strings-attached' funding to academic institutions and think tanks to deter research that casts it in a negative light," according to CIA reports
obtained by the Washington Free Beacon last year.
But I Thought The Left HATED Quid Pro Quo Funding!
"It has used this tactic to reward pro-China viewpoints and coerce Western academic publications and conferences to self-censor.
This why the ENTIRE Left takes the China side in every US/China dispute, it's all about the benjamins!
The CCP often denies visas to academics who criticize the regime, encouraging many China scholars to preemptively self-censor so they can maintain access to the country on which their research depends."
No wonder the Left loves China. They give them lots of money and the Left wants to emulate this societal control.
Some colleges, though, have refused to close their Confucius Institute, despite warnings from the federal government.
Sure, if the Chinese replace the DOD cash, plus a little extra for the Administrator's trouble.
