UPenn Sees Increase in Chinese Donations After Biden’s Think Tank Documents Scandal

The University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) saw the amount of donations from China more than triple in its most recent reporting period, shortly after the university faced a scandal regarding Joe Biden’s storage of classified documents in his think tank’s offices at the university.

As reported by Fox News, the surge in foreign donations was revealed in documents obtained by Americans for Public Trust (APT). With donations from individuals and entities directly tied to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the university saw roughly $25 million in such donations during the 2022-2023 academic year. By contrast, the academic year of 2021-2022 saw just $8.6 million from China.

Overall, UPenn has been given at least $130 million by China from 2018 to 2023, which itself was a significant increase compared to previous years.

“As America’s adversaries continue threatening U.S. national security interests under President Biden’s watch, it’s no surprise that donations to our colleges and universities from Chinese nationals have continued to surge,” said Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of APT. “This is yet another clear signal that our institutions of higher education have become instruments of foreign influence under an administration that projects weakness on the global stage.”

“The tripling of Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania, home to Biden’s think tank, should raise serious alarms among lawmakers who are interested in curbing the growing power of the Chinese Communist Party,” Sutherland continued.

One such donor is Chung-nin Rock Chen, the Hong Kong deputy to the National People’s Congress and a member of the National Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). Chen donated to the university three different times in the 2022-2023 year, amounting to $205,000. Another major donor was Kathy Xu, the founder of Chinese private equity firm Capital Today, an early investor in the CCP-linked internet company Meituan Dianping. Xu gave $10 million to UPenn in December of 2022.

UPenn is the home of Joe Biden’s think tank, the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Last year, as the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) began its efforts to prosecute former President Donald Trump over alleged possession of classified documents, similar classified documents were discovered at the Penn Biden Center, in Biden’s former personal office. The scandal not only highlighted Biden’s hypocrisy on the matter, but drew the contrast that, unlike Trump, Biden never had the authority to possess such documents since he had only been Vice President at the time.

The extensive Chinese donations also draw greater focus on the numerous foreign business deals that the Biden family has made using their name to promise political influence in exchange for wealth, with China being one of the primary countries where the family has done such business. There is currently an ongoing impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden regarding these and other deals made by members of his family, including his son Hunter Biden.

We knew this in 2021-—Biden slips from our grasp, again
Chinese donations to U of Penn triple to $72M after “Biden Center’ formed
NOQ Report ^ | 01/28/2021 | Scott Boyd
Posted on 1/28/2021, 11:33:26 PM by SeekAndFind

Circa 2021-—A week and a day into a Biden administration and there is already more evidence of Chinese influence being revealed than the entire body of “evidence” presented in the Russia probe against President Trump. The latest very questionable circumstance happened in 2017 when the University of Pennsylvania formed the Penn Biden Center.

In the 37 months prior to the center’s formation, the university received $21,187,333 from China. In the 39 months after the formation of the Penn Biden Center, donations from China more than tripled to $71,274,675. Republican Representatives James Comer, Jim Jordan, and Virginia Foxx sent a follow-up letter to the university yesterday after not receiving a reply to their initial inquiry.

🚨JUST NOW🚨

Top Republicans @RepJamesComer, @Jim_Jordan, and @virginiafoxx are expressing concerns over UPenn’s close relationship with the Biden family and recent revelations that the university has received millions of dollars from China. The lawmakers are seeking answers👇 pic.twitter.com/bMpUk9VSFa

— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) January 28, 2021

At the heart of this mess is Hunter Biden, the son of the President, who’s alleged dealings with the Chinese Communist Party have drawn a federal investigation. Moreover, there are reasons to believe based on documents found on Hunter Biden’s laptop as well as eyewitness testimony that his father is vulnerable to coercion from Beijing.

The Republican members of Congress laid out the reason for their requests in a letter sent to the president of the university:

On August 3, 2020, we wrote to you regarding unreported and anonymous foreign donations to the University of Pennsylvania from foreign adversaries such as Russia, China, Qatar, and Iran. We have yet to receive a response. In light of your university’s close relationship with the Biden family and recent revelations regarding their potentially illicit ties to foreign adversaries including China, we request an immediate response to this inquiry.

On December 9, 2020, both Hunter Biden and the Biden-Harris Transition Team admitted that Hunter Biden was under federal investigation for his “tax affairs.” Reporting indicates the criminal investigation’s primary focus is whether Hunter Biden violated tax and money laundering laws in his foreign business dealings, particularly in China. Notwithstanding significant counterintelligence concerns, these facts raise serious questions regarding conflicts of interest and the integrity of the Biden family’s ties to China. Understanding whether the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement (Biden Center) received funds from China or other adversarial nations at the behest of the Biden family or future Biden Administration officials will shed light on the depth and breadth of the potential improper influence these nations enjoy over the Biden family.

On February 1, 2017, University of Pennsylvania announced the formation of the Biden Center. In the 37 months of available reporting prior to the announcement of the Biden Center, the University received about $21,187,333 from China. In contrast, in the 39 months of available reporting since the announcement of the Biden Center, the University received $72,274,675 from China—an increase of $51,087,342 in a similar time frame.

For some time, we have been concerned about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to use its strategic investments to turn American college campuses into indoctrination platforms for American students. In fact, Liu Yunshan, the former Head of Central Propaganda Department of China, pointed to the proliferation of CCP infiltration of U.S. education as part of a plan to “coordinate the efforts of overseas and domestic propaganda, [and] further create a favorable international environment for [China].” At the very least, increased CCP influence in the U.S. allows a window into U.S. culture, infrastructure, and planning—providing a gathering ground for Chinese intelligence agencies.

The CCP’s actions calls into question whether U.S. institutes of higher education receiving federal taxpayer dollars should be allowed to accept funds from China, the CCP, or other affiliated organizations.

It’s bad enough that the current President of the United States is likely compromised by the Chinese Communist Party. It’s worse that nearly everything he has touched, including the Penn Biden Center, may be compromised as well.

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Book—‘Red-Handed’ —— Reveals Chinese Donations to U of Penn Soared After Biden Center Announcement

A government watchdog is demanding the US attorney probing Hunter Biden in Delaware investigate tens of millions in anonymous donations from China to the University of Pennsylvania, where an academic center is named for his father, President Biden.

FTA.....The Ivy League college raked in a total of $54.6 million from 2014 through June 2019 in donations from China, including $23.1 million in anonymous gifts starting in 2016, according to public records.

Most of the anonymous donations came after the university announced in February 2017 that it would create the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Joe Biden, whose term as vice president had just ended, was to lead the center and was also named “a professor” at the university.

UPDATE.....AFTER THE CHINA TAINT SURFACED, IN A HUGE SURPRISE, CHINA RICH PENN GAVE $100 MILLION “TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.” WAS THIS DIRTY CHINESE MONEY?

Biden Senate Records Hidden From Taxpaying Public
Joe Biden——Bought and Paid For The “Delaware Way”

Delaware State Supreme Court Lets $$$$$ University of Delaware
Keep Biden Senate Records Hidden From Taxpaying Public
Daily Caller News Foundation ^ | July 6, 2023 | Katelynn Richardson
FR Posted on 7/9/2023, 9:33:22 AM by george76

The Delaware Supreme Court sided with the University of Delaware Thursday, denying the release of President Joe Biden’s Senate records in a lawsuit brought by the Daily Caller News Foundation and Judicial Watch.

The DCNF and Judicial Watch appealed to the Delaware Supreme Court in January 2023 after the state’s Superior Court found the university had satisfied the burden of proof needed to justify denying the records that the DCNF requested through the state’s public records act.

The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court’s judgement Thursday, shielding the documents requested in both organization’s April 30, 2020 public records requests from release.

“The public has a significant interest in these documents,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton told the DCNF. “If the Delaware courts are going to protect Biden from having to produce them or the secret deal that keeps them away from the American people, then Congress should get involved.”

Documents requested by the DCNF, which now will not be released, include
<><>agreements relating to the storage of 1,850 boxes and 415 gigabytes of records from 1973 to 2009,
<><>communications between university staff and Biden’s staff,
<><>log sheets of individuals who have visited the collection, and,
<><> the actual records in the collection.

The records may contain information
<><>relating to Tara Reade,
<><>who accused Biden of sexually assaulting her while working in his senate office in 1993,
<><>or the president’s son Hunter Biden,
<><>who recently plead guilty to possessing a firearm while using a controlled substance, and,
<><> for failing to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018.

Biden’s records have been housed at the University of Delaware Library since 2012. He gave them to the university on the condition that they would not be publicly released until “they have been properly processed and archived,” according to the university’s website.

During oral arguments for the case in June, legal counsel representing the university told the Delaware Supreme Court it could determine whether public funds were used to support Biden’s papers without looking at the records.

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