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Dems Water Down China Provisions in Defense Bill GOP accuses Pelosi of gutting enforcement against Chinese influence on campus Getty Images December 18, 2020 4:59 AM House Democrats stripped down an anti-China bill that unanimously passed in the Senate by removing language reining in Chinese government influence on U.S. campuses. The Senate s National Defense Authorization Act included a provision that authorized the Department of Education to withhold funding from U.S. universities that host Chinese government-backed Confucius Institutes on campus. House Democrats removed the measure from the final version of the bill following negotiations. Louisiana senator John Kennedy (R.), who helped write the anti-Confucius Institute measure, said Democrats led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) had gutted a key weapon to counter Chinese influence in academia.

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