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More than 100 American universities and colleges received donations, gifts, or contracts from sources in China between the years 2013 and 2020, according to a Bloomberg analysis of U.S. government data. Harvard University received the most—nearly $100 million—with the majority of donations considered gifts. A House Oversight panel is looking into donations China made to the University of Pennsylvania.
Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich argues China’s “infiltration” of American universities is a big problem with no easy solution.
One of the striking discoveries about Chinese Communist penetration in the states has been the degree to which they have been giving money away to American universities, most of which is not reported. We’re not able to account for it.
Harvard has gotten over $100 million in money from the Chinese Communists. At the same time, we have, for example, at MIT, the penetration of Chinese influence is so great that while he was the active U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo was blocked by MIT from speaking on campus because it would offend the Chinese.
Think about that. An American Secretary of State can’t speak on an American campus, because they’ll offend the Chinese Communists. We’ve also learned, I think, in ways that tie directly back to Hunter Biden and the scandal of the Biden family finances, that there are two Biden centers.
There’s a Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. And there’s a Biden Center at the University of Delaware. Well, it turns out both places get money from the Chinese Communists. The best of our knowledge, again, all of this is blocked because they are not transparent, they’re not accountable, they’re not sharing the information.
But University of Pennsylvania has gotten at least $62 million from the Chinese Communists. Remember, the current Secretary of State Anthony Blinken ran the Penn Biden Center for a reported $1 million a year salary. So you’ve got a guy who may be very friendly to Chinese Communists in ways that we don’t fully understand. At the same time, the University of Delaware, which has a huge volume of documents from all Biden’s years in the Senate, the University of Delaware has gotten at least $28 million.
