Closing China-backed Cultural Institutes Would Put UK’s Universities in Financial Pinch: Observers

UK media began reporting on Number 10’s plans to close the 30 Confucius Institutes attached to Britain’s universities last month, with the move meant to showcase the prime minister’s ‘tough on China’ policy. The institutes’ work includes educating Britons about the Chinese language and culture, but Tories see them as a tool of Chinese soft power.