Rishi Sunak had promised to close 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes in the UK.
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Rishi Sunak has backtracked on a pledge to shut down 30 Chinese state-sponsored Confucius Institutes across the UK.to close the cultural schools, which are accused of spreading propaganda and spying on students, during his bid to become Conservative leader last year.Senior Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith called the decision "ridiculous".the centres of being used by the Chinese government to spread propaganda and interfere with free speech on campuses.
In his unsuccessful leadership campaign, Mr Sunak had promised to close all 30 of the institutes in Britain, declaring China "the biggest-long term threat to Britain". But since becoming prime minister he adopted less hard-line language. In March, the updated UK integrated review on foreign and defence policy described China as representing an "epoch-defining and systemic challenge" rather than a "threat".
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