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In what may – or may not – have been a process issue, the Biden administration appears to have quietly dropped the proposed Trump rule requiring all K-12 schools and universities in the U.S. to disclose ties to China’s subversive, state-run ‘Confucius Institutes.’ This action immediately provoked a Republican backlash, but also raised questions about whether it was deliberate Biden policy, or simply a victim of the interagency review process during the presidential transition.
As the Washington Examiner reported:
…GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Marco Rubio, and House Foreign Affairs ranking member Michael McCaul, criticized the Biden administration going ahead with rejecting the proposal.
“By quietly backing away from the proposed rule without consulting Congress, the Biden administration is sending a concerning signal about its scrutiny of CCP influence in academia, and telling academic institutions that they don’t need to be transparent about their ties to China’s regime,” McCaul said.
President Trump had clamped down on these subversive Chinese institutes, and all Chinese influence and espionage efforts in the country. As The Examiner added that:
In August, the State Department designated the Confucius Institute U.S. Center in Washington, D.C., as a “foreign mission” of the Chinese Communist Party, with former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo saying at the time “the United States wants to ensure that students on U.S. campuses have access to Chinese language and cultural offerings free from the manipulation of the Chinese Communist Party and its proxies.” U.S. officials also slapped the same “foreign missions” label on a host of Chinese state-run media outlets last year.
McCaul’s China Task Force report from September also found that “through Confucius Institutes, monitoring of students, and direct interference by PRC diplomats, the CCP is trying to force its views upon our institutions of higher learning.”
However, the Biden White House pushed back strongly against the claim that it had deliberately removed the rule, noting that the rule had never been finalized. According to The Examiner a White House spokesperson told the paper that:
The assertion that the Biden administration withdrew this draft rule from [the] Federal Register is false. The Trump administration never submitted it to the Federal Register in the first place because OMB never completed its review of the draft rule during the Trump administration. It was stuck in OMB’s interagency review on Inauguration Day.
Meanwhile the paper added that: “The Washington Examiner’s reporting had made it clear that the proposed rule had not made its way to the Federal Register nor gone into effect yet.”
However, the White House did not say what it intended to do with the proposed rule.
Whether this was in fact simply a bureaucratic process issue, or instead a quiet way to drop Trump’s proposed rule, is yet to be seen. However, by highlighting this critical issue, critics are ensuring it is not the latter.
As McCaul stated: “I strongly urge the Biden Administration to stick to its promises to prioritize the CCP as our main national security challenge, including in the American education system.”
Continued reporting and pressure is needed to ensure this will be the case.
This f…tard no IQ moron is bringing our country to it’s knees very quickly…..hang him and all the freaks this dimwit hired
Aye, this is very alarming and there has to be heavy pushback against the Biden – Harris regime before America goes to hell in a hand basket . Impeachment of them both will be necessary sooner rather than later .
I’m so sick of that old fart I could 🤮, I’ll be glad when he’s down for the count !!!!!
China Joe and his administration can’t bring this country down fast enough.
time to impeach the president, biden, and obama ,vp harris ,and pelsoi….all are guilty of crimes against the AMERICAN PEOPLE….
cut off his hands and if that don’t work cut of something else then he won’t be able to sign anything
People must learn, Biden is a traitor or stupid, either one not fit for president.
I hope the morons that voted for that piece of shit are happy. He can’t ruin our country fast enough.
Biden is going tooo far, someone needs to stop this corrupt sold out to China dictator or we will not have a country. He really must hate the America that gave him his wealth! What a pathetic excuse for a human being!
Each passing day, the Slo & Ho Administration steps ever closer to starting a Civil War.
Impeachment! Sooner rather than later…
The government wonders why Parents are looking for private school alternatives for their childrens education.
How much did China pay you for that little act of spying in American schools? Hope you choke on the Chinese money! Hope Karma kicks you ass clear off the planet.
WHEN IT COMES TO OUR CHILDREN ——- YO KEEP THAT COMMUNIST LEADER AWAY FROM OUR CHILDREN AND THEY ARE TO STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM OUR SCHOOLS. WE DON’T NEED THEIR KIND OF BRAINW3ASHING DIRECTED AT OUR KIDS. THE KIDS GET ENOUGH FROM THE LIBERAL DEMS—GET MY MEANING.
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Naturally Pedo Joe did this since he works for China.
Once again , Joe Jinping is proving his undying allegiance to his masters in Beijing.
WAKE UP PARENTS, GET INVOLVED WITH YOUR KIDS IN OUR SCHOOLS NOW AS THE KIDS ARE BEING ATTACKED WITH FOREIGN CRAP AND NEEDS TO BE STOPED NOW! OUR HISTORY TO BE BROUGHT BACK IN FULL PERSECTIVE NOW! GO TO YOUR SCHOOL BOOARDS AND LAY THE LAW DOWN ON THIS INDOCTERNATION! A BIG NO NOW ON ALL !
It’s just another incidence where China Joe is giving the country away to the Chinese.
It remains to be determined exactly why Biden believes this is a good move for us as Americans and at the same time explain why it was so bad before.
Those clowns in dc lost 4years off their plan to subjugate us and now are moving as fast as those mfukrs in bejing can type.
george Soro’s is telling biden what to do and he wants to rule the world and if he gets america the rest will follow