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by Frank Bergman
January 22, 2024
from
SlayNews Website
Several major American nonprofits have been funneling millions of
dollars directly to the Chinese Communist Party, financial records
have revealed.
Tax documents show that between 2017 and 2022,
...together funneled about $10.2 million directly
to China's communist dictatorship.
Additional funds have also been pumped into government entities,
universities, and groups controlled by top-ranking members of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Chinese beneficiaries of the American philanthropies include
state-run universities that collaborate with the People's Liberation
Army, as well as government ministries.
Tax forms show, for example,
that the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave
China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment $400,000 between
2021 and 2022.
The money was listed as funding for "capacity building" and
"research" related to China's "green" foreign investments.
The Ford Foundation, meanwhile, gave the Chinese Ministry of
Human Resources and Social Security $27,878 in 2014 to tour the
United States for economic research.
The organization, established by Henry Ford's son Edsel, also
gave China's Ministry of Agriculture $20,000 in 2018 to conduct
urbanization research, according to tax filings.
Chairman of the House Select Committee on the CCP
Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) warns that the CCP is seeking to
"coerce" Americans.
"The CCP's economic warfare uses any and all
available leverage to coerce us," Gallagher said in a statement.
"We need to stop fueling our own destruction."
Many of the donations made by American charities
went to Chinese academic institutions that work with China's
government and the CCP.
Between 2017 and 2022, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),
one of the biggest recipients of donations from the trio of liberal
foundations, received,
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$530,000 from the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund
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$706,000 from the Ford Foundation
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$265,000 from the MacArthur Foundation
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave CAS funding
for environmental initiatives, while the Ford Foundation funded its
research examining China's investments in the global south "from a
gender perspective" and on urban poverty in the country.
The MacArthur Foundation's grants, meanwhile, supported CAS' Kunming
Institute of Botany and funded ecological research.
Hou Jianguo, a CCP member, is the
president of CAS.
Jianguo
wrote in 2020 that CAS,
"will be guided by Xi Jinping's thoughts on
socialism with Chinese characteristics for [a] new era" in the
Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
According to the South China Morning Post,
he also served as the organization's Communist Party secretary
before becoming its president.
CAS operates
under the leadership of China's
State Council, which is ,
"executive body of the supreme organ of
state power" and the
Party Central Committee, which
is the top policymaking body of the CCP.
The State Council itself is largely
composed of members of the CCP.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology,
where some suspect
COVID-19 may have originated,
operates under CAS,
according to its website.
In December 2022, the U.S. Commerce Department
added CAS's Institute of Computing
Technology (ICT) to its list of entities supporting the Chinese
military and defense industry.
The ICT was
founded by CAS in 1959 and,
"holds firmly to the new-era guidelines of
the Chinese Academy of Sciences,"
according to the institute's
website...
Sarah Lee, director of communications at
the Capital Research Center, suggested in a statement that China may
be trying to stifle free speech in America.
"It's telling that the areas where China
seems to be soliciting foreign foundation funding - especially
from a country like the U.S. which places a premium on free
speech - is in its university sector," Lee said.
"President Xi's recent tightened control over China's
universities makes it disappointing that an American foundation
like Ford would potentially underwrite Chinese state propaganda
as its home country continues to compete with China in the areas
of innovation and trade," she continued.
Peking University and Tsinghua
University received about $2.2 million and $4.9 million,
respectively, from the trio of charities.
The North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering, meanwhile,
received $60,000 from the Ford Foundation in 2017 for economic
research.
The Ford Foundation provided the bulk of the donations to China's
state-run universities, giving roughly $2 million to Tsinghua to,
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improve the capacity of Chinese NGOs to
operate internationally
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hold climate change seminars
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undertake poverty research,
...among other things.
The organization gave Peking University about $4.8 million for
operations such as conducting economic research, influencing the
global south, working toward reducing urban poverty in China,
researching government capacity during times of crisis, and
advancing the university's African initiatives.
The MacArthur Foundation, meanwhile, gave
Peking University $78,000 for ecological research.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave Tsinghua $180,000 for carbon
emissions research.
All three universities funded by American
charities are considerably involved in Chinese defense
research...!
Tsinghua hosts at least eight different
defense research laboratories, including labs focused on
artificial intelligence and missile guidance systems,
according to the Australian
Strategic Policy Institute's (ASPI) translation of the
university's website.
Tsinghua also launched a joint computer science program with the
People's Liberation Army in 2020, according to ASPI's
translation of a university web page.
Researchers discovered in 2018 that Tsinghua's tech
infrastructure had also been used to launch an espionage
campaign against the Alaska state government, the Financial
Times
reported.
Peking University, similarly to Tsinghua, hosts four different
defense labs,
according to ASPI's translation
of the university's website.
The labs conduct research in areas related to radiation,
microelectronics, and "high energy density physics" simulations.
Peking University signed a cooperation agreement with the
Chinese navy in 2013, according to ASPI.
The university agreed to work with the Chinese
Navy on research, training, construction, and exerting cultural soft
power, alongside other areas, according to an archived webpage
detailing the agreement.
The North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering, meanwhile, hosts
two defense labs and has a close relationship with the Chinese
missile manufacturing industry,
per ASPI.
China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, a pair of
state-owned defense companies that dominate missile and satellite
tech in China,
signed a joint agreement to support
the North China Institute of Aerospace Engineering in 2003,
according to ASPI.
Since then, the university and the two Chinese defense conglomerates
have worked closely in research and product development,
according to an archived copy of
the university's website.
Some groups that are not explicitly part of the Chinese government
but are nonetheless directed by members of the CCP also received
financial backing from American charities.
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
donated over $1 million to the China Council
for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)
for "policy research" between 2020 and 2022.
CCICED provides the Chinese government with advice on
environmental policy and development,
according to the organization's
website.
The organization was founded in 1992 with the approval of the
Chinese government.
While not officially part of the Chinese government, CCICED
still reports to the State Council and is led by high-ranking
Chinese government officials.
Ding Xuexiang, the current
head of the CCICED, is a member
of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee and the
highest-ranking vice premier of
the People's Republic of China.
In addition to funneling money to the Chinese
government, the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and
MacArthur Foundation also fund domestic liberal activists.
The three charities fund,
...according to
their tax forms.
The MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and Ford
Foundation are not the only liberal-aligned U.S. charities
transferring money directly to the Chinese government.
The
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
pledged about $24 million in grants to Chinese government
organizations in 2022, according to its tax forms.
The Ford Foundation defended its grant-making to Chinese government
organizations in a statement.
"The Ford Foundation's work in China is
designed to help ensure that China's economic, political, and
social impacts are equitable, both domestically and globally," a
spokesperson for the charity said.
"The grants referenced help advance this aim, from studying the
effects of urbanization on migrant laborers and the elderly to
advancing the field of philanthropy in China."
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