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China defends Confucius Institutes now under fire from US

| October 16, 2020 3:30 AM

BEIJING (AP) — Following scathing political attacks from the Trump administration, China on Friday defended its Confucius Institutes as apolitical facilitators of cultural and language exchange.

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