A new report from Defending Education has identified at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools across 30 states that exposed their students to Chinese Communist Party propaganda through the Young Envoys Scholarship program.
According to the report, titled “Little Red Classrooms: China’s Infiltration of American K-12 Schools,” the program is monitored by the China Education Association for International Exchange, or CEAIE, and serves as an alternative to the Confucius Institutes, which Congress began restricting in 2021.
On its Chinese website, the organization states that it is guided by “Marxism-Leninism” and Xi Jinping thought on socialism. It aims to “always adhere to the leadership of the Party and integrate the Party’s work into the entire process of the association’s operation and development.”
Reagan Dugan, director of higher education initiatives at Defending Education, told the Daily Signal that it is an attempt by the Chinese communist regime to create a pipeline into America’s classrooms.
“The organization Xi Jinping personally tasked with bringing 50,000 young Americans to China, CEAIE, states in its own charter that it exists to carry out Party activities and ‘adhere to the overall leadership of the Communist Party of China,’” Dugan said.
“This same organization is now overseeing YES programming inside at least 83 universities and 26 K-12 schools in 30 states. Families are being sold cultural exchange,” Dugan continued. “What they’re actually getting is a Party-run pipeline into their kids’ classrooms.”
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