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Chinese lessons made in Taiwan

Taiwan’s plans are ambitious. By 2025, the democratic island republic wants to establish 100 language centers around the world to popularize “Taiwanese Mandarin” and introduce foreigners to Taiwan’s culture. The government in Taipei hopes that the program could also help the diplomatically isolated country to increase international exchange.

The People’s Republic of China is still at the forefront when it comes to offering “Chinese as a foreign language”. However, due to ongoing censorship and propaganda accusations, the Chinese Confucius Institutes have come under blanket suspicion in Europe and the USA. Just last week, German Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger expressed concerns that Confucius Institutes are being politically instrumentalized by the Chinese Communist Party.

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