fredag 28. april 2017

Documentary Pulls Back The Curtain On Communist China's Global Soft Power Outposts

“I didn’t think that going abroad, a place I thought to be free, that I’d still be restricted.” Sonia Zhao was a college student in China when she learned she could teach Chinese abroad through centers called Confucius Institutes. She signed up and finished the training, but recoiled when she saw the final contract. It required her to pledge nonparticipation in Falun Gong, a meditative practice banned in China, in part because its massive popularity threatens loyalty to the Chinese Communist Party. Read more