Universities Must Act on Confucius Institutes: CIs may no longer be desirable elements of Chinese language and culture education

The first Australian Confucius Institute (CI) opened at the University of Western Australia in 2005. More followed, and there are now 14 CIs as well as 67 Confucius Classrooms (CCs), offshoots of CIs which operate in primary and secondary schools. They have generally been welcomed by universities as a readily available source of funding and resources.