When Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, meeting with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang, announced the decision to establish the first Confucius Institute, at Hanoi University, Vietnam, the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas plans to close its Confucius Institute in January, in part because federal funding ...

Editor's note: In "Footprint", a series of stories recalling important examples of China interacting with the rest of the world, we follow the path the country has taken in the past seven decades.

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Miami Dade College is severing ties with a Chinese government-affiliated language program that has been a target of conservative politicians and groups with concerns over propaganda and censorship.

With the closing of Confucius Institutes, China may be heading for a “soft power” war with the West. The first Confucius Institute opened its door in November 2004 in Seoul, South Korea. Hanban, or ...

Tufts announced on March 17 that it would join the group of 75 universities that have decided to close their Confucius Institutes. After years of criticism and controversy surrounding the institutes, ...

Pennsylvania State University is the second institution within a week to confirm that it will not be continuing its agreement to host a Confucius Institute, a center for Chinese language and cultural ...

ISMAILIA, Egypt-Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, an engineer who works for a Chinese company operating in Egypt, was bursting with excitement when talking about the training program he has just joined at a ...

Valparaiso University is closing its Confucius Institute next year amid heightened concern over the possible loss of federal funding because of its involvement with the Chinese-based music program. In ...