Rachelle Peterson of the National Association of Scholars chats with Ben Weingarten about the aims and activities of China's Confucius Institutes on U.S. college campuses, including their Communist party backing and oversight, subjecting of U.S. programs to Chinese law, the leverage such Institutes provide over American schools, their propagandizing and whitewashing of Chinese atrocities and human rights abuses, surveillance and alleged espionage efforts and legislative efforts to probe and counter them.