NB in Talks With Taiwan to Bring in Chinese-Language Program to Replace Confucius Institutes
New Brunswick is in talks with Taiwan to bring in a Mandarin-language program that will replace that of communist China’s Confucius Institute, the province’s education minister told a Commons committee on June 21. Some of the institutes have already been removed from N.B.’s school system, with the rest to be closed by 2022. “One of […]
New Brunswick is in talks with Taiwan to bring in a Mandarin-language program that will replace that of communist China’s Confucius Institute, the province's education minister told a Commons committee on June 21. Some of the institutes have already been removed from N.B.'s school system, with the rest to be closed by 2022. “One of my goals is to work with … Taiwan to try and replace any programming that’s lost because of the end of our relationship with Confucius Institutes with a country that will respect our democratic values,” Dominic Cardy told the House of Commons Special Committee on Canada-China Relations. “We're already in those discussions, and I hope those will come to fruition very shortly.” Cardy, who has been a driving force behind removing Confucius Institutes (CI) in his province, said they are a tentacle of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that extends deep “inside public schools and ...
