“Grandpa Confucius, Please Come Home”

As Weibo commentators criticize the massive amount of government money being spent on Confucius Institutes, a party mechanism for spreading Chinese soft-power around the globe via Chinese language training and cultural education, cartoonist and blogger Dashixiong (大尸凶) recently posted a cartoon on the subject:

“Grandpa Confucius, we want to study, we want to eat a healthy lunch. We beg you to come back home and teach us…”

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