Beijing Weighs in on Row over TDSB/Confucius Institute Partnership

By Omid Ghoreishi. The Chinese state agency in charge of the controversial Confucius Institutes is urging Canada’s largest school board not to suspend its ties with the institutes, which have been cited by intelligence agencies as instruments for the Chinese regime to extend its “soft power.”
In a letter obtained by Epoch Times, Ma Jianfei, deputy chief executive of Confucius Institute Headquarters and executive deputy director general of Hanban—the state agency in charge of the institutes—asks Toronto District School Board (TDSB) director of education Donna Quan and trustees to keep the Confucius Institute open. More...