Prominent figures including former President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel have addressed the National Chinese Language Conference, aiding in the Chinese Communist Party-funded event’s quest to amplify the reach of its propaganda Confucius Institutes, The National Pulse can reveal. Confucius Institute headquarters, colloquially known as Hanban, has sponsored an annual National Chinese Language Conference (NCLC) since 2007. It aims to amplify the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) funded initiatives, which masquerade as language and culture initiatives despite being a propaganda front, by “enhancing the capacity for teaching and learning of Chinese language culture by sharing cutting–edge practices