{"id":1128719,"date":"2021-12-17T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128719"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:29:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:29:02","slug":"house-republicans-probe-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-probe-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Probe Raimondo\u2019s Financial Ties to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-probe-raimondos-financial-ties-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128719&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"28.16\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">GOP members want commerce secretary to brief Congress on &#8216;deeply concerning&#8217; Free Beacon report<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-736x491-1.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-scaled-e1639172275791.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Gina-Raimondo-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tCommerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/matthew-foldi\/\" title=\"Posts by Matthew Foldi\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Matthew Foldi<\/a> \u2022 December 17, 2021 2:15 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"77.593862815884\">\n<p>House Republicans are asking for a briefing from Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on her family&#8217;s financial ties to China after a <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/commerce-secretarys-husband-is-top-executive-at-tech-firm-funded-by-chinese-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> on her husband&#8217;s work for a tech company funded by the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/republicans-energycommerce.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/2021.12.17-Letter-to-Sec.-Raimondo-re-PathAI-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Friday letter<\/a>, Republican members said they had &#8220;significant concerns&#8221; about Chinese investment in PathAI, an artificial intelligence company that employs her husband in a senior role. The company is funded by Danhua Capital, a Beijing-backed firm that invests in tech companies as part of the Chinese government&#8217;s attempted &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-china-techinvesting-insight\/chinas-penetration-of-silicon-valley-creates-risks-for-startups-idUSKBN1JP08V\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-china-techinvesting-insight\/chinas-penetration-of-silicon-valley-creates-risks-for-startups-idUSKBN1JP08V&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1639845976395000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0z57H137NTv7Ic5wA76r1F\">penetration of Silicon Valley<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the secretary of commerce, an agency central to America&#8217;s competition with China, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence, this revelation is deeply concerning and raises significant questions about obvious conflicts of interest and our strategic interests to lead on AI,&#8221; the letter from Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R., Wash.), Morgan Griffith (R., Va.), and Gus Bilirakis (R., Fla.) states.<\/p>\n<p>The members ask Raimondo in the letter to answer several questions on PathAI, including whether she was aware of Chinese investment in PathAI and if she disclosed that knowledge to the Biden administration during the confirmation process. They additionally call on Raimondo to lay out whether her financial interest in PathAI has played a role in decisions regarding China, including how her agency has pushed back on efforts by others in the agency to block Chinese tech companies from partnering with American companies. The Commerce Department has argued that taking a tough-on-China approach would hurt U.S. companies, according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Notably, and of particular concern given the revelation of your husband&#8217;s employer&#8217;s apparent ties to the Chinese Communist Party, the Commerce Department has reportedly been stalling efforts to blacklist certain Chinese technology companies and investments,&#8221; the letter states.<\/p>\n<p>Raimondo did not respond to <em>Free Beacon<\/em> inquiries about Chinese investment in PathAI. The Commerce Department declined to comment on the Friday letter.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to throwing a lifeline to Huawei\u2014a Chinese telecommunications company closely linked to the communists&#8217; brutal oppression of China&#8217;s Muslim Uyghur population\u2014Raimondo has opposed pressuring companies to boycott the Beijing Olympics next year and called for &#8220;robust&#8221; economic engagement with the Chinese.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden Administration GOP members want commerce secretary to brief Congress on &#8216;deeply concerning&#8217; Free Beacon report  Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo (Getty Images)  Matthew Foldi &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}