The newspaper/Aragon: “Stop Confucius Institute” protest at the opening of the center in Zaragoza

Además de "Stop Instituto Confucio", who has collected signatures against the opening of the Chinese Institute, Representatives of Tibet's house in Spain and the Falun Gong organization have also been present.

Fernando Romeo, perteneciente a la Coordinación de la plataforma "Stop Instituto Confucio", He explained to Efe that they have filed a complaint with the justice of Aragon for all the controversies and controversies of the aforementioned institute worldwide.

"Se vende como un Instituto Cervantes" but, As he said, "en realidad el Instituto Confucio está controlado por Pekín, With direct budget and with a further motive that is the Trojan horse. They come with the idea of peace and teach Chinese culture and language but have a reason, que es influenciar", has stood out.

He has also commented that confucio institutes are being closed throughout the world and that there are already more than ten institutions in Canada, USA, France or Sweden (Stockholm), That was the first to open in Europe, They have closed their doors.

The reasons for closures are diverse, según señala el representante de "Stop Instituto Confucio".

He states that in France it was for propaganda in textbooks with songs praising Mao Tse Tung (Mao Zedong) And the Chinese Communist Party; that Stockholm did it because I thought there could not be a university receiving financing from a foreign government and in Portugal, for how the director of the Confucius Institute behaved in that country, since he ordered some pages of a program of Taiwanese institutions and pressed the BBC in an interview to erase part of the same.

Romeo has indicated that for those who want to inform themselves about the activities of the Chinese Institute there is a documentary that was issued in the 2 TVE the past 2 of May, titulado "El dragón de las mil cabezas" in which the controversy surrounding this institution is explained.

Una de las afirmaciones que se hace es que "las agencias occidentales de contraespionaje han concluido que los Institutos Confucio son una especie de agencia de inteligencia dirigida por el gobierno".

Fernando Romeo has also indicated that the professors of the aforementioned Institute are not allowed to practice Falung Gong, which is a peaceful meditation that is persecuted in China and that all human rights issues such as Tibet are censored, Taiwan or the Tiananmen massacre.

In addition the requirements of teachers, According to Nanjing University, es que "tienen que ser patriotas, With firm ideology and receive a recommendation letter from your university of origin specifying, above all, su ideología política", Romeo points out.

Regarding the University of Zaragoza, ha apuntado que "podría recibir unos 100.000 dollars a year to pay teachers' salaries, mantener la sede y para material didáctico pero no contrata a los profesores ni hace los libros de texto".