WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Thursday Chinese government-funded cultural centers at U.S. universities would be required register as foreign missions, the latest sign of the deteriorating relationship between Washington and Beijing.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a statement, said the move followed a conclusion that the so-named Confucius Institutes are “an entity advancing Beijing’s global propaganda and malign influence campaign on U.S. campuses and K-12 classrooms.”
(Reporting by David Brunnstrom, Humeyra Pamuk, Tim Ahmann and Jonathan Landay; Editing by Susan Heavey)
