Bipartisan Student Call For End Of Confucius Institutes

Colour me surprised.   As reported by Campus Reform, the "College Democrats" and "National College Republicans" issued a joint statement asking American universities to close all Confucius Institutes in the name of academic freedom.

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Surprising but not earth-shaking.  The College Democrat site doesn't mention this although the Republican one does.  Neither group is supported by mass voluntary donations from university students, as far as I know.  It's possible to take in higher ed and never run into either one.  Still, it is unusual to have left and right voices agree that a foreign agenda-driven group doesn't belong inside the beating heart of a university.

What may be significant is that larger bodies have not discouraged the smaller ones from taking this position.  Like the Catholic publishing "Nil Obstat", national parties apparently haven't discouraged it.