{"id":3220,"date":"2026-10-24T11:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2026-10-24T11:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T06:03:47","slug":"pentagon-designates-confucius-institutes-in-us-a-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes in US a national security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Defence Department has designated \u200bChinese-funded cultural centres on university campuses known \u200cas Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said \u200bon Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Washington has long accused Confucius \u200bInstitutes of being Chinese propaganda tools and \u2060has taken steps to crack down \u200bon them.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth, in a video posted on \u200bsocial media, alleged that Confucius Institutes were operating under disguise at US universities and that the Pentagon \u200bhad added them to its list \u200bof institutions that threaten US national security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt turns out \u200cthat \u206080 new propaganda cells across 30 universities had popped up using different names and different charters, but with the same mission: \u200bto steal \u200bintellectual property \u2060and to infiltrate the minds of American students,\u201d Hegseth said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bDefence Department over the past two \u200bmonths \u2060has \u201csystematically dismantled every single one of these organisations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese embassy in Washington \u2060did \u200bnot immediately respond to \u200ba request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Defence Department has designated \u200bChinese-funded cultural centres on university campuses known \u200cas Confucius Institutes as a threat to US national security, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said \u200bon Friday. Washington has long accused Confucius \u200bInstitutes of being Chinese propaganda tools and \u2060has taken steps to crack down \u200bon them. Hegseth, in a video posted on \u200bsocial media, alleged that Confucius Institutes were operating under disguise at US universities and that the Pentagon \u200bhad added them to its list \u200bof institutions that threaten US national security. \u201cIt turns out \u200cthat&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}