the confucius institute ought to be u.s. programs to support chinese language and culture programs for students in this country instead of outsourcing. as an example, we can goen of offense rather than responding or enacting actions by china. schools should not have to rely on china for funding as an example. i'm deeply concerned the language in the underlying bill takes a reflective and narrow-minded mueview of the real challenge posed by china. closing off our country is the wrong approach. closing off our nation of foreign investment and students is thinking like a defensive coordinator, not a particularly creative one. we need to think like a head coach, developing new offensive and defensive strategies a new playbook, revamping the old one. let me clarify, going on offense is not just a reaction to china, it represents a strategy to keep the u.s. engaged in the global community. we should focus on multiple aspects of public policy. education, foreign trade, investment, immigration, military capabilities, innovation, and

currently they are 103 active confucius institutes in the united states with hundreds more classrooms in k-12 schools. recently entered a stage or 5336 , the foreign influence transparency a.c.t. which would require institutions of higher education to disclose the context of entered into with sources such as the confucius institutes as well as the dollar amount received where they have facilities co-located with advanced research laboratories. do you share my concern about the influence of foreign political parties and nationstates in the education of our students and would you agree more transparency with foreign actors in our nations colleges and universities? >> congressman thank you for that question and thank you for your comment earlier about the deputy secretary. i'm thrilled to be able to work with him and appreciate the work that he has done in south carolina. i share your concern about the possibility of foreign government influence anywhere in our country. while it is more a state institutional issue to deal with i think having transparency around foreign government financi

confucius103 active institutes in the united states, with hundreds more confucius classrooms in k-12 schools. recently, i introduced the foreign's -- the foreign influence transparency act, ofch would hire institutions higher education to expose the contracts they have entered confucius as the institute, as well as the dollar amount, where they have abilities. do you share my concern with the influence of foreign states in the education of our students? do you agree there should be more transparency? >> congressman, thank you for that question, and thank you for your comment earlier about the new deputy secretary. i am thrilled to be able to work with him, and appreciate the work he has done in south carolina. i share your concern about the possibility of foreign government influence anywhere in our country. i know this issue has been raised up recently, and while it is more a state and institutional issue to deal with, i think having foreignency around government financial contributions into any school or institution would the un-them -- would be an important consideration. >> thank

and he said that they should go and talk to confucius and jesus and muhammad and buddha and socrates,ou will bejudged. and he said, they shall not condemn me and they shall notjudge me. shall not condemn me and they shall not judge me. it shall not condemn me and they shall notjudge me. it was a really engaging interview with the former fifa president and you can find much more of it on the bbc sport website. many thanks indeed. let's round up some of the day's other headlines, serena williams is a doubt for this month's french open. she's pulled out of next week's italian open. she's already ducked out of the current madrid open. six months after having her first child, she is still short of fitness and hasn't played on clay for two years. tiger woods will take part in this year's open championship at carnoustie. 2015 was the last time that the three—time winner played in the tournament. and enrico battaglin won stage 5 of the giro d'italia. australia's rohan denis retains the leaders pinkjersey. chris froome is 57 seconds off the lead. they stay in sicily, for a tough climb up mount

currently there are 103 acts of confucius institutes in the united states with hundreds more confucius classrooms in k-through 12. i introduced hr35336 the foreign influence transparency act which would require institutions of higher education to disclose to contractors they've entered into with foreign sources such as the institutes and the dollar amount received where they have facilities collocated with advance research lab dores. do you sayre my attorney but the influence of foreign political parties in nation state knows okayed offerings students? should there be more transparency with foreign actors in our nations colleges and universities. >> thank you for the question and thank you for your comments but the new deputy secretary. i'm thrilled to be able to work with him, and appreciate the work he has done in south carolina. share your corn but the possibility of foreign government influence anywhere in our country. i know this issue has been raised up recently, and while it is more a state and institutional issue to deal with, i think having transparency around foreign governme

he was conversant in plato and in confucius and spoke at least eight languages from english and even to sanskrit. when he wasn't writing books, he was lecturing as a professor. he wasn't doing either of those he was working as an economic research analyst at japan's most important think tank. when he wasn't doing any of those, he was organizing radical activist groups to see his ideas achieved some tangible impact on japanese society. for years and years they did. in the mid '20s his books and speeches urged japan to unit e east asia and challenge the western. it was an effort that prepared the japanese people for war in the eyes of the tokyo trial accusers. in the early 1930's, he funded the uprising of assassination of prime minister and signified the moment when japan's aspiring democracy effectively exceeded control to the military. late 1941, days after pearl harbor, he broadcast the popular series of radio lectures that outlines the history of western political aggression and reminded learners of prophesy he had made back in 1925. that japan and the united states would meet in

colleges have confucius institutes. those are outposts funded by china.om the chinese government. your daily newspaper might be doing it too. "the washington post" for example, not making this up takes public money that is propaganda controlled by the chinese government. they are not embarrassed, they do a lot. the root of their strength comes from its economy, which is booming. it was built in part on the destruction of our economy. china's economy will soon surpass america's inside. it will be the richest country on earth soon. the u.s.-china trade imbalance hit a record 375 billion last year. that has increased dramatically since we allowed china into the wto 20 years ago. our leaders have assured us they have become less oppressive as they get richer. that hasn't happened, in some ways the opposite has happened. meanwhile, many thousands of american businesses have died as a result. whole industries have been destroyed in entire regions of our country destroyed in turn. now china plans to dominate high-tech manufacturing as well taking more and better

and she was -- it's stale still a con confucius society. and it's a play where are somebody who makes public radio money can have a nanny. she said, well, these are your people in back in the village so did you give them any money? i said no we brought gifts, offered money, they often say no. and i brought gifts but didn't offer them money and this is the only time she says you should have. and i told her, well, they're not going to say yes, they're going find a way to not take it. which is onthe case in a place like china, and i said, well, i'll try but i know they won't take the money. so we get back to china -- back to shanghai and i call this man's daughter back in the village, and i said, you kind of have to work up the story to say i'm -- i've decided -- you have to declare i'm going to send you some money to, and i'm waiting for her to say no or push it off and she says, okay, here's my bank account. and 874 -- so she was ready. you make these mistakes you don't even realize when you go these places and unless somebody makes you stra

issues and address them the policy recommendations that we make -- you know just sort of eliminating confucius institutes suspect the right way to go for example. so i, you know, there are issues but i think we want to be very careful about them. >> sure. >> earl. thank you rimp and thank you for this discussion and aferszs on the issue of taiwan, where do you see the future of taiwan playing out? if current trends continue do you see taiwan being -- kind of rejoined or current status prolonged past 20, 2049? >> you know, my hope would be, you know, that china will -- move forward with degree of political reform in the future that will make the taiwan issue a nonissue. that's any distant hope i'm concerned that i think that china again is undertaking a number of inducements so for example, offering chinese businesspeople national treatment for their firms they locate on the mainland right. so they'll treat the same as they would chinese firms. at the same time as they have cohearsive measures for example, you know refusing to meet with -- officials in tieing one's government, so there are no n

the confucius brand looks logical. there are 103 active confucius institutes with 300 classrooms in k-12 schools. i introducesed a bill the foreign transparency act which requires institutions of higher education to disclose the contracts they entered into with foreign sources as well as the dollar amount received where they have facilities co-located with advance research laboratories. do you share my concern about the influence of foreign political parties in nation states in the education of our students. would you agree should there be more transparency with foreign actors in our nation's colleges and universities? >> congressman, thank you for that question and thank you for your comment earlier about the new i share your concern. this issue has been raised up. while it's more of a state and institutional issue to deal with, i think having transparency around foreign government, financial contributions into any school or any institution is, would be an important consideration. >> thank you for your assistance and

so if you ever want an example of the confucian system of government, according to confucius men, they self- selected group of people who have the mandate of heaven, though not the mandate of voters, there is no better example of the chinese system in the united states. mr. vice chair, believe it or not i do have a question. are there any financial institutions in this country that are too big to fail?>> i think that we have made really tremendous progress since the -- >> that is the exact answer that your chairman gave and was pressed is any bank too big to fail? do you agree with the chairman when he said no?>> i don't want to be in the position of disagreeing with my chairman.>> you are supposed to. that is why we pay salaries to more than one person at the fed. if they're all going to agree, anyone would be superfluous.>> i do think that all of the large banks are much more resolvable than they have been before. >> are they too big to fail? could a disaster in one bank bring down our whole economy? >> currently, i think that the system is much more resilient. >> i did not ask you t