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After a surge in new openings between 2007 and 2012, Canadians are becoming increasingly wary of the China’s Confucius Institute
Fears about academic freedom, espionage and indoctrination are leading to a push back from educational institutions and provincial education departments
The response from parents, students and teachers has been mixed, with some arguing that fears about the Confucius Institute are overblown

We have all heard about protests against school closures, yet in recent years Canada has seen an increase in the number of demonstrations calling for the closure of certain schools. The schools in question - China’s Confucius Institutes - appear at first as unlikely targets for the ire of Canadian students and parents. The institutes (ostensibly) seek only to promote Chinese culture, language and art, yet opponents maintain that the organizations have a more sinister, ulterior mandate. Specifically, there is growing concern that Confucius Institutes in Canada and other countries constitute part of Beijing’s influence peddling network, or at worst outlets of propaganda and espionage. Former CSIS Asia-Pacific bureau chief, Michel-Juneau Katsuya has gone so far as to describe the Confucius Institutes as a “Trojan horse,” operating as satellite spy offices in Canada.
As of July 2019, there were 548 Confucius Institutes in 154 countries around the world, a global network that has some worried. The Chinese government and other proponents of the institutes maintain that they are no different from similar organizations run by other nations which promote language and culture, such as France’s L'Alliance Française or Germany’s Goethe-Institut. Opponents of the Confucius Institutes argue that Western language and culture organizations such as those mentioned above operate independently of political interests, with clear mandates to keep an arm’s length from their respective governments. Conversely, the Confucius Institute is closely tied to China’s ministry of education, and has been criticized for acting in concert with Beijing’s political ambitions.

At the beginning of 2017, there were twelve Confucius Institutes and thirty-five Confucius Classrooms (a less resource intensive version a tier below an Institute - mainly aimed at students in primary and secondary education) in Canada. This represents 2.3 and 3.3 percent of global institutes and classrooms respectively, as Canada is not a foreign policy priority for China, which has instead focused on the United States: Confucius Institutes are located at over 100 American universities, and around 500 Classrooms are dotted around the U.S.

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