{"id":48588,"date":"2022-09-18T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/18\/beijing-backed-chinese-language-schools-in-uk-to-be-replaced-with-teachers-from-taiwan"},"modified":"2022-09-18T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T07:00:08","slug":"beijing-backed-chinese-language-schools-in-uk-to-be-replaced-with-teachers-from-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48588","title":{"rendered":"Beijing-backed Chinese language schools in UK to be replaced with teachers from Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MPs in talks with Taiwan to help phase out Confucius Institutes as relations between the countries worsen<\/p>\n<p>A group of cross-party MPs is in talks with Taiwan to provide Mandarin teachers to the UK as the<strong> <\/strong>government seeks to phase out Chinese state-linked Confucius Institutes, the<em> <\/em>Observer has learned.<\/p>\n<p>There are currently 30 branches of the Confucius Institute operating across the UK. Although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/jun\/15\/confucius-institutes-universities-chinese-ambassador\" title=\"\">controversies have existed for many years<\/a>, they have continued to teach Britons Chinese language, culture and business etiquette. These schools are effectively joint ventures between a host university in Britain, a partner university in China, and the Chinese International Education Foundation (CIEF), a Beijing-based organisation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/18\/beijing-backed-chinese-language-schools-in-uk-to-be-replaced-with-teachers-from-taiwan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs in talks with Taiwan to help phase out Confucius Institutes as relations between the countries worsenA group of cross-party MPs is in talks with Taiwan to provide Mandarin teachers to the UK as the government seeks to phase out Chinese state-linked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,615,2351,4,74,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-education","category-liz-truss","category-politics","category-taiwan","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48589,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48588\/revisions\/48589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}