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Utah lawmaker urges closure of Chinese Communist Party-funded Confucius Institutes at state universities

The non-binding resolution urges the University of Utah and Southern Utah University to close their programs by December 2022

(Matthew Pennington | AP file photo) This May 2, 2018, file photo shows undergraduate student Moe Lewis, left, displaying her watercolor painting of peony leaves at a traditional Chinese painting class at the Confucius Institute at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. U.S. lawmakers — and now state legislatures, including Utah's — are pushing for tighter regulation or even closure of the more than 100 Chinese Confucius Institutes set up on campuses across America.