{"id":54596,"date":"2023-04-25T06:30:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/uk-stop-funding-chinese-confucius-institute-mandarin-teaching-schools"},"modified":"2023-04-25T06:30:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:30:19","slug":"uk-expected-to-stop-funding-chinese-state-linked-mandarin-teaching-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=54596","title":{"rendered":"UK expected to stop funding Chinese state-linked Mandarin teaching schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Secretive visa scheme has been used to fast-track Chinese staff to promote Communist party values at Confucius Institutes<\/p>\n<p>UK government funding for Mandarin teaching at branches of the Chinese state-linked Confucius Institute is to be axed, but they will not be closed, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jul\/24\/sunak-to-promise-curbs-on-china-as-uks-biggest-long-term-threat\">as Rishi Sunak promised last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The step is expected to be announced by James Cleverly, the foreign secretary, on Tuesday and comes as research shows that a secretive visa scheme has been used to fast-track Chinese government-vetted staff to come to the UK to promote Chinese Communist party (CCP) values at the institutes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/apr\/24\/uk-stop-funding-chinese-confucius-institute-mandarin-teaching-schools\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretive visa scheme has been used to fast-track Chinese staff to promote Communist party values at Confucius InstitutesUK government funding for Mandarin teaching at branches of the Chinese state-linked Confucius Institute is to be axed, but they wil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"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":[41,50,2899,4,1158,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-james-cleverly","category-politics","category-rishi-sunak","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\/54596","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54597,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54596\/revisions\/54597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}