Let’s begin 2021 with some potentially happy news from a place that hasn’t generated a lot of happy news of late: The University of Idaho. The school is closing a program on campus that is funded by Communist China.

The program is called the Confucius Institute and it is one of hundreds of similar institutes located on university campuses in the U.S. and around the world. Foreign policy and national security watchdogs have long worried that China uses the institutes as a way to leverage support and silence dissent by concealing the nation’s oppressive history, a fact that the school downplayed when I asked about it a year ago.