I have no personal insight into Confucius Institute censorship, but the reason I wrote “nation states” rather than China was because I agree, this applies in all directions.

The communist party is still operating in the USA and at least nobody disturbed their national convention in 2019.

Also, the Chinese Culture Center, arguably a pro-China activity, is still operating normally.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Party_USA [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Culture_Center

Confucian does not mean pro Communist and not pro CCP as some Commies have to learn it. I read in an anti China Magazin a reasoning for human right based on Confucian philosophy made on by Taiwanese philosophy phd student in Germany.

I guess these discussion won't happen in your mentioned Confucian learning events.