German Politicians Call to Stop Funding Confucius Institutes With German Taxpayers’ Money
Recently, top German politicians held an online conference to discuss the global influence of the Chinese communist regime’s Confucius Institutes (CI), calling to stop funding them with German taxpayers’ money.
According to German media Donaukurier, the Ingolstadt Action Alliance for Uyghur Human Rights and the World Uyghur Congress co-organized the online conference prior to Ingolstadt city council’s upcoming voting on whether to continue to support the AudiConfucius Institute in the city with municipal funds, which will take place on May 11.
Prominent German politicians, including members of the Bundestag (German Federal Parliament), spoke at the online conference on April 24, such as Margarete Bause (Greens), Martin Patzelt (CDU), Landtag (Bavarian State Parliament) Vice President Markus Rinderspacher (SPD), along with Ursula Dusolt from the International Society for Human Rights (