TIL that the US has been quietly closing Confucius Institutes on college campuses, due to political pressure.
Confucius Institutes, among other things, are testing sites for the HSK, which are a series of exams on the Chinese language. These exams are open to anyone, not just college students. It's just that CIs are often located in colleges.
There was a law passed in 2019 stating that colleges can't receive funding from the DoD for Chinese language studies if they have a Confucius Institute on campus.
There have also been protests claiming that CIs discriminate by refusing to hire Falun Gong members, and that they have a chilling effect on academic freedom because they are affiliated with the Chinese government.
the shit with the smoothie guy and ppl trying to defend him because his son apparently has a peanut allergy....if you have such a serious allergy or medical food limitation you need to express that and honestly probably not go to these restaurants because anywhere that works with allergens is not safe so even disregarding his racist bullshit and harassment, he put his own son's life in risk for a mf smoothie
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