Published on February 22, 2020.
This article cites Keiko Kawasoe’s work and introduces the problem of Confucius Institutes, which are described as overseas propaganda organs of the Chinese government and outposts of the strategic department of the United Front Work Department.
It discusses the 2018 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act, testimony by the FBI director, Chinese political influence and interference in American higher education, and anti-Japanese operations on the U.S. West Coast, presenting them as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s international “red influence operations.”

February 22, 2020
The National Defense Authorization Act also, for the first time, included a provision to prevent funds from flowing to the “Confucius Institutes,” which are said to be the Chinese government’s overseas propaganda organs and outposts of the strategic department of the United Front Work Department.
The following chapter also proves that the Asahi Shimbun and NHK are completely under the influence operations of the Chinese Communist Party.
The author, Ms. Keiko Kawasoe, is one of the leading journalists of our time.
This is a book that not only the Japanese people but people all over the world must read.
In this article, I have greatly omitted not only the preface but also the middle portions, but needless to say, all of those sections are also essential reading.
Japanese citizens, please go to your nearest bookstore and purchase it.
Those in the international community who have taken Chinese and Korean anti-Japanese propaganda at face value should recognize the truth through this article.
The Danger of Confucius Institutes
The National Defense Authorization Act, which President Trump signed in August 2018, also, for the first time, included a provision to prevent funds from flowing to the “Confucius Institutes,” which are said to be the Chinese government’s overseas propaganda organs and outposts of the strategic department of the United Front Work Department.
Among the purposes of the Confucius Institutes are written such objectives as “spreading education based on socialism as the core value” and “promoting the Chinese Dream.”
On February 13, before the bill was enacted, at a hearing of the Intelligence Committee of the U.S. Senate, FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed that “the Confucius Institutes are being investigated not only on suspicion of expanding the propaganda of Chinese Communist Party ideology, but also on suspicion of espionage activities involving the illegal acquisition of information related to the U.S. government.”
Furthermore, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars mentioned earlier, which hosted Vice President Pence’s second speech in October 2019, released a report in early September 2018 titled “A Study of China’s Political Influence and Interference Activities in American Higher Education.”
It is said that the report records cases of appeasement such as “not only Chinese diplomats, but also some of the Chinese students studying abroad, whose total number reaches 350,000, persecuting academic freedom by making complaints and applying pressure to the content of education and research in line with the wishes of the Chinese government,” and “Chinese parties recommending to university professors, using large payments as bait, that they write books with content desired by the Chinese government,” as well as cases of self-censorship on China-related academic themes out of fear of retaliation or criticism from the Chinese government.
There is also a first-generation Chinese immigrant who has continued to make donations, including 3 million dollars in 2006 for the construction of a library at the University of California, Berkeley, to promote Southeast Asian studies, 2.19 million dollars in 2008 for the construction of a building for the Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and the creation in 2013 of the “100,000 Strong Foundation” to promote U.S.-China exchange.
That person is Ms. Fang Libangqin, Florence Fang, who is responsible for the San Francisco branch of the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia, renovated the branch building in the city’s Chinatown, opened the War of Resistance Against Japan Memorial Hall in August 2015, and became its honorary director.
It is unclear whether the large donations made by Ms. Fang, who has continued to be a key person in anti-Japanese operations on the West Coast and has risen to the top ranks of the overseas Chinese community in the United States, were her private funds or operational funds from China, but it is certain that she has risen to a high position in the overseas Chinese community on the West Coast.
Her meetings with Liu Yandong, head of the United Front Work Department, and others during visits to China have also been made public, and in September 2015, at a banquet in Seattle welcoming Xi Jinping’s visit to the United States, photographs remain showing her seated at the same number-one table as Wang Nining, director of the Party Central Policy Research Office, who is also rumored to be the patron behind the Confucius Institutes.