{"id":159250,"date":"2026-10-24T09:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159250"},"modified":"2026-10-24T09:20:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T09:20:03","slug":"systematically-dismantled-hegseths-new-offensive-against-chinas-confucius-institutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=159250","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Systematically dismantled\u2019: Hegseth\u2019s new offensive against China\u2019s Confucius Institutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust weeks before Donald Trump\u2019s second trip to China this year and his third meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom he has called a \u201ctruly great\u201d friend, his administration is intensifying its crackdown on Confucius Institutes \u2013 Beijing-backed centres that promote Chinese language and culture at universities abroad.<br \/>\nLong viewed by critics as instruments of Beijing\u2019s soft power and cultural diplomacy, the institutes are back in the crosshairs of US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, who says the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/diplomacy\/article\/3372023\/systematically-dismantled-hegseths-new-offensive-against-chinas-confucius-institutes\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostJust weeks before Donald Trump\u2019s second trip to China this year and his third meeting with President Xi Jinping, whom he has called a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}