Birdwatch Note Rating
2022-10-24 02:05:02 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 2F2DF0B6218E6354E1CCF609BE51A98ABB6BDDE29929D3B5D207E7A495DFAA21
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Use of the Confucius Classroom program to teach Mandarin in schools was promoted and encouraged by the GW Bush administration. Concerns about the program’s use as a propaganda tool began to be raised in 2017, after Chen had left the school board where he’d voted to use it. https://vietfactcheck.org/2022/10/05/is-congressional-candidate-jay-chen-a-communist/ https://www.brookings.edu/articles/its-time-for-a-new-policy-on-confucius-institutes/ https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-09-30/jay-chen-michelle-steel-china-communism-vietnamese-voters
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