You have to laugh when US calls Confucius Institutes 'spy agency'

THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE, the supreme audit institution of the federal government of the United States, released a report on Feb 27, which says that it found Confucius Institutes on US campuses play largely positive roles and assertions that they interfered with US academic freedom were unfounded. Li Ye, a veteran Chinese teacher for foreigners, comments in an article for Guancha.cn:

Yet on the same day, the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations said that the Confucius Institute program gives China too much control over programs in the United States, claiming the program is a threat to academic freedom and national security.

These contradictory views reflect the US government's mixed sentiments about the Confucius Institutes.