Confucius Institute
Chinese international educational partnership program
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| 2024 | Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council banned its citizens from working at Confucius Institutes due to national security concerns. |
| 2022 | Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi was attacked in a suicide bombing. |
| June 30 2021 | Baruch College, City University of New York, ended its Confucius Institute agreement. |
| March 8 2021 | U.S. Senate passed a bill restricting federal funding for colleges hosting Confucius Institutes. |
| 2020 | Sweden ended agreements with all Confucius Institutes in the country. |
| August 13 2020 | U.S. Department of State designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center as a foreign mission of the PRC. |
| July 2020 | Hanban announced its renaming to Center for Language Education and Cooperation, claiming the Confucius Institute was fully handed over to a non-governmental private organization. |
| May 13 2020 | College Democrats of America and College Republicans National Committee jointly called for immediate closure of all U.S. Confucius Institutes. |
| 2019 | Vrije Universiteit Brussel and University of Kansas terminated their Confucius Institute contracts. |
| 2019 | Multiple U.S. universities closed Confucius Institutes due to a law prohibiting DoD funding for universities hosting these institutes, including Indiana University, University of Minnesota, University of Rhode Island, and others. |
| February 19 2019 | Leiden University in the Netherlands promised to end its Confucius Institute agreement by August 2019. |
| 2018 | U.S. Congress members from Texas urged four universities to close their Confucius Institutes. Texas A&M complied shortly after receiving the letter. |
| 2018 | Peak number of Confucius Institutes in the United States, reaching around 100 institutes. |
| 2015 | Stuttgart Media University and University of Hohenheim in Germany terminated their Confucius Institute contracts. |
| 2014 | China Post highlights the strategic use of Confucius' name to create a culturally recognizable brand for international outreach. |
| 2014 | University of Chicago, Pennsylvania State University, and Toronto District School Board terminated their Confucius Institute contracts. |
| December 2014 | Stockholm University, the first European university to host a Confucius Institute, terminated the program. |
| December 5 2014 | PRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Hua Chunying denied House testimony about Confucius Institute interference and claimed they only assisted with teachers and textbooks. |
| November 2014 | Canadian Association of University Teachers urged Canadian universities and colleges to end ties with the Confucius Institute. |
| September 2014 | Pennsylvania State University cut ties with the Confucius Institute, concluding its objectives were misaligned. |
| September 2014 | University of Chicago suspended negotiations for renewal of its Confucius Institute agreement with Hanban. |
| August 2014 | Xu Lin, Director-General of Hanban, ordered staff to rip pages referring to Taiwanese academic institutions from the European Association for Chinese Studies conference program in Braga, Portugal. |
| June 2014 | American Association of University Professors issued a statement urging American universities to cease collaboration with Confucius Institutes unless specific academic freedom conditions were met. |
| 2013 | Chinese Communist Party general secretary Xi Jinping articulated the goal of Confucius Institutes to 'give a good Chinese narrative', emphasizing their role in cultural diplomacy and soft power. |
| 2013 | McMaster University and Université de Sherbrooke in Canada, and University of Lyon in France terminated their Confucius Institute contracts. |
| October 2013 | University of Chicago professor Marshall Sahlins published an extensive investigative article criticizing the Confucius Institutes and the universities hosting them. |
| 2011 | Trademark protection for 'Confucius Institute' is enforced in Costa Rica to prevent preregistration infringement. |
| 2010 | Osaka Sangyo University in Japan terminated its Confucius Institute contract. |
| 2010 | Highest concentration of Confucius Institutes was in the United States, Japan, and South Korea. |
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