An American lawmaker and scholars have called for increased transparency and accountability regarding Chinese language textbooks used in U.S. colleges, following the exposure of a popular textbook containing propaganda from the Chinese communist regime.
Cynthia Sun, a researcher at the Falun Dafa Information Center who has extensively studied Chinese state-funded Confucius Institutes in Western universities and the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) transnational repression campaign, recently identified that “Discussing Everything Chinese,” a textbook used in Chinese language classes at many universities across the United States, contains CCP propaganda against Falun Gong practitioners.
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was introduced to the public in 1992 by Li Hongzhi. It’s a traditional meditation practice rooted in Buddhist traditions, following the principles of truth, compassion, and forbearance. Due to its effectiveness in improving physical and mental health, it spread rapidly across China. There were 70 million to 100 million practitioners in China by the end of the decade, according to estimates at the time….