The U.S. Department of State is backing down from its insistence that 600 Chinese-language schoolteachers affiliated with university-based Confucius Institutes leave the country by the end of June because of visa problems.
The State Department's chief spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland, said at a news briefing Thursday that department officials were "going to do our best to fix this without having anybody have to leave." Ms. Nuland also said the department would conduct an investigation to determine how the "mess-up" occurred. ...