{"id":121601,"date":"2021-02-08T22:20:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=121601"},"modified":"2021-02-08T22:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T03:42:40","slug":"bidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s CIA Pick Was President Of Think Tank That Took Millions From Chinese Communist Party-Tied Entities: Report"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fbidens-cia-pick-was-president-of-think-tank-that-took-millions-from-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities-report%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=121601&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/William-Burns-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be the next director of the CIA, William Burns, was the president of a think tank that reportedly took millions of dollars from entities linked to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Burns also invited nearly a dozen congressional staffers to attend a junket to China, where they met with a communist party operative and a president of a Chinese front group,\u201d The Daily Caller News Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/08\/william-burns-joe-biden-cia-china-carnegie\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cBurns, who was paid $540,580 last year as president of Carnegie, will appear before the Senate Intelligence Committee for a confirmation hearing likely to be held this month.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burns, who has been president of the think tank for nearly six years, welcomed Chinese businessman Zhang Yichen, CEO of CITIC Consulting, to the think tank\u2019s board of trustees, saying that they were \u201cvery fortunate\u201d to have him. The report said that Zhang donated between $500,000 and $999,999 to the think tank over a one-year span between 2017 and 2018 and gave an additional $250,000 and $549,999 to the think tank in the last fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZhang is a member of two organizations linked to the Chinese Communist Party, according to his biography at CITIC Capital: the Chinese People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and the Center for China and Globalization,\u201d the report said. \u201cCPPCC is an advisory group for the Chinese Communist Party that is affiliated with China\u2019s united front system, which promotes Chinese government initiatives abroad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The think tank also received funding from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a Hong Kong-based think tank that has reportedly come under scrutiny in recent years over its ties to China\u2019s communist government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCUSEF donated between $100,000 and $249,999 to Carnegie in 2015 and the same amount between July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017, according to archived versions of Carnegie\u2019s donor page,\u201d the report said. \u201cAccording to the Jamestown Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank led by retired U.S. intelligence officials, CUSEF is \u2018a major player in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)\u2019s organizational apparatus for conducting united front work in the United States.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has a big footprint in China for a US think tank. Its experts and officials also often appear on CGTN, the state-run news org.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Sullivan criticized Trump in a CGTN interview in 2017, when he was w\/ Carnegie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RIkqQNy5KP\">https:\/\/t.co\/RIkqQNy5KP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckRossDC\/status\/1358968431761104905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The news comes as the Biden administration has faced mounting pressure over whether it will confront communist China over a wide range of issues. Biden has repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2020-election\/biden-s-comments-downplaying-china-threat-u-s-fires-pols-n1001236\">downplayed<\/a> the threat the China poses to the United States and even repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-biden-repeatedly-refuses-to-call-china-an-opponent-when-pressed-by-cnn\">refused<\/a> to call China an \u201copponent\u201d during an appearance on CNN last year.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview that aired in-part on Sunday, Biden praised Chinese President Xi Jinping, saying that he was \u201cvery bright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s very tough. He doesn\u2019t have \u2013 and I don\u2019t mean it as a criticism, just the reality, he doesn\u2019t have a democratic, small-D, bone in his body,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9234029\/President-Joe-Biden-says-Chinas-Xi-Jinping-doesnt-democratic-bone-body.html\">said<\/a>. \u201cBut \u2026 the question is, I\u2019ve said to him all along, that we need not have a conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Related:<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s nominee to be the next director of the CIA, William Burns, was the president of a think tank that reportedly took millions of dollars from entities linked &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892947,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3706,4926,3669,5907,3693,5904],"class_list":["post-121601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-bidens","tag-pick","tag-president","tag-tank","tag-that","tag-think"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}