{"id":80394,"date":"2026-10-23T20:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/pentagon-designates-china-backed-campus-cultural-centers-a-threat-to-us-national-security\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:55:06","slug":"pentagon-designates-china-backed-campus-cultural-centers-a-threat-to-us-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/pentagon-designates-china-backed-campus-cultural-centers-a-threat-to-us-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon designates China-backed campus cultural centers a threat to US national security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary Pete Hegseth alleges Confucius Institutes operating in disguise on US university campuses<\/p>\n<p>The \u2060US defense department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses \u2060known as Confucius \u2060Institutes \u200bas a threat to US national security, defense secretary Pete \u2060Hegseth said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Washington has long accused Confucius Institutes of being Chinese propaganda \u2060tools and has taken steps to \u200bcrack down on them.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/23\/pentagon-china-hegseth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense secretary Pete Hegseth alleges Confucius Institutes operating in disguise on US university campuses The \u2060US defense department has designated Chinese-funded cultural centers on university campuses \u2060known as Confucius \u2060Institutes \u200bas a threat to US national security, defense secretary Pete \u2060Hegseth said on Friday. Washington has long accused Confucius Institutes of being Chinese propaganda \u2060tools &#8230; <a title=\"Pentagon designates China-backed campus cultural centers a threat to US national security\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/pentagon-designates-china-backed-campus-cultural-centers-a-threat-to-us-national-security\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pentagon designates China-backed campus cultural centers a threat to US national security\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}