While Western governments are turning against Chinese cultural centers, developing countries are giving them a warmer welcome.
The inaugural Southeast Asia Confucius Institutes Joint Conference, themed ‘Coordinated Innovation for Steady Progress’, was held in Beijing, from July 20-21, 2023. Credit: Khon Kaen University
With cameras snapping away, nearly 300 scholars, businessmen and government officials gathered in a university hall earlier this month to celebrate the opening of a new Confucius Institute at the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil. The fourteenth in the South American country, the school was hailed as a “new symbol of Sino-Brazilian friendship.”
Brazil’s growing number of Confucius Institutes — state-funded programs that promote Chinese language and culture — is part of a w
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