Opinion
Stop Confucius Institute Platform
07/07/2017
Public protest against the Confucius Institute / Stop Confucius Institute Platform
Increasingly, Concern and alert are growing regarding the upcoming opening of a Confucius Institute (IC) of the Chinese government in Zaragoza. In Spain there are 6 institutes and 9 Confucius classrooms in operation. In May Documentos TV broadcast the documentary on La2 "The thousand-headed dragon", exposing all the controversy of espionage that the Chinese regime has carried out in other countries. In this documentary, Canadian intelligence declares the Confucius Institute as a tool of espionage and influence.
He 25 In September, an IC is scheduled to open at the Faculty of Education to “teach Chinese culture and language.”” to the inhabitants of Zaragoza. In Toledo the start of the program is scheduled 10 July at the Lorenzana Palace. The controversies surrounding said Institute range from the violation of academic freedom and belief, to foreign influence that could endanger national security. It is not similar to a Cervantes Institute, because the IC depends directly on the Chinese regime and does not have its own facilities. The IC adheres to the facilities of an established foreign organization such as the university to have direct access to its students., who will be future leaders in the foreign country. They want to create a benign image of the Chinese regime in young foreigners, for the Chinese regime to gain influence on the world stage. They don't work short term, but in the long term, It's the Trojan Horse.
Xu Lin, director of the Confucius Institutes, vice minister and member of the State Council of the P.R.. China, ordered in 2014 his staff tearing out the pages of a program at an educational conference in Portugal (was offended by co-sponsorship of a Taiwanese foundation). the same year, Xu Lin was involved in a controversy when she and her cabinet pressured BBC reporters for more than an hour to delete an interview in which they had asked her about the incident in Portugal.. When the University of Chicago prepared to close its Confucius Institute, Ms. Xu Lin issued threats by telephone and in writing to the university. According to Business Spectator, Beijing's charismatic offensive “still falls on officials like Xu, who still think and act like Party ideologues who like to assert their authority and bully people into submission.". Xu Lin has been awarded the Commemorative Medal of the 475 anniversary of the University of Zaragoza, shameful.
En un vídeo recogido en el documental "En el nombre de Confucio", Xu Lin stated: "no hemos perdido la soberanía educativa. I am really proud of this model, es como si las universidades extranjeras trabajasen para nosotros". Apparently the university and the entity of the Chinese regime that controls the IC collaborate with equal weight and conditions, but the foreign university usually contributes in kind, paying the Spanish IC staff and offering the facilities. The Chinese regime contributes nearly 150,000€ to university, ¿Who will criticize a dictatorship once he accepts money from it in his pocket?? According to the agreement to create a Confucius Institute in Zaragoza, The University of Zaragoza assumes that it will be the responsibility of the Chinese organization to determine the projects sponsored by the Chinese government agency. In this way we are letting the dictatorial Chinese government enter our educational system, ¿What values do they want to impose on us?? También el convenio estipula que ambas partes deben tomar el convenio como "confidencial" and not spread it to a third party. In a university supported by public funds from citizens, any agreement must be public, and it is not normal that the Aragon transparency law had to be resorted to to obtain it. The agreement with the Chinese collaborating university to send Chinese professors to the IC in Zaragoza states that it will provide one or two professors. These teachers, ¿will be recruited from the university students who, as Sonia Zhao, They had to sign a labor contract that prohibits Falun Gong practitioners from being teachers?
Falun Gong is a spiritual practice that was very popular in China in the 1990s., but that in 1999 began to be persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party, afraid of his popularity. Practitioners have been subject to persecution by the regime, who has detained hundreds of thousands of practitioners, subjects them to various tortures and in some cases, murders them to remove their organs in a forced way.
ICs are not the goose that lays the golden eggs, They are more like a wolf in sheep's clothing, as the actions of the CCP have demonstrated over all these years, a dictatorial regime that has been condemned in multiple civilized nations for seriously violating human rights. ¿Universities really gain prestige with the IC? The universities of Lyon, Stockholm and Stuttgart have closed their ICs along with others. The highest representative of the IC has publicly declared that “the IC are an important part of our diplomatic power, "We want to expand China's influence.". We cannot let our independence in education be affected, The evidence is already enough to say no to the Confucius Institute. For all this, We do not want in any way for the academic freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution to be compromised in public education. 1978.
