{"id":1303414,"date":"2022-02-16T15:26:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1303414"},"modified":"2022-02-16T15:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T20:31:12","slug":"red-handed-antony-blinken-helped-u-s-universities-take-ccp-cash-refused-to-help-highest-profile-ccp-defector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-handed-antony-blinken-helped-u-s-universities-take-ccp-cash-refused-to-help-highest-profile-ccp-defector\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Red-Handed\u2019: Antony Blinken Helped U.S. Universities Take CCP Cash, Refused to Help Highest Profile CCP Defector"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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%2Fred-handed-antony-blinken-helped-u-s-universities-take-ccp-cash-refused-to-help-highest-profile-ccp-defector%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=1303414&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--><p class=\"subheading\">Secretary of State Antony Blinken ran a consultant firm prior to becoming America\u2019s top diplomat that helped American universities \u201cnavigate problems\u201d with legally balancing Pentagon contracts and Chinese funding of dubious origin, <em>New York Times-<\/em>bestselling author Peter Schweizer reveals in his new bestseller&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken became secretary of state following a confirmation hearing in which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-china-blinken\/new-u-s-secretary-of-state-favors-cooperation-with-china-despite-genocide-of-uighurs-idUSKBN29W2RC\">asserted<\/a> that he believed that China was guilty of genocide \u2013 in the case of the extermination of the Uyghur people of East Turkistan \u2013 but that America should have a \u201ccooperative\u201d relationship with the genocidal regime, anyway. His tenure has been marked by an extremely passive policy towards China characterized by Blinken himself allowing various Communist Party officials to berate him in public.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Blinken is also, as the nation\u2019s top diplomat, behind President Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. A \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d is not a boycott \u2013 diplomats do not play sports at the Olympics \u2013 but a gesture in which diplomats do not attend the ceremonial events around the Games. Blinken\u2019s State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/12\/28\/biden-admin-confirms-sending-officials-to-genocide-games-claims-boycott-stands\/\">admitted<\/a> less than a month after announcing the \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d that American diplomats would be there, negating even that tepid gesture.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken, Schweizer details, ran the University of Pennsylvania\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/global.upenn.edu\/penn-biden-center\">Biden Center<\/a> for Diplomacy &amp; Global Engagement while helping <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180301020850\/http:\/\/westexec.com\/antony-blinken\/\">establish<\/a> WestExec Advisors, a consultancy that debuted in 2017 with a group of top-level Obama administration officials at the helm. WestExec currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westexec.com\/\">bills<\/a> itself as a \u201cstrategic advisory firm that offers unique geopolitical and policy expertise to help business leaders make the best decisions in a complex and volatile international landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Last night, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PBC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PBC<\/a>\u2019s Managing Director <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABlinken?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ABlinken<\/a> kicked off the guest speaker series for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennInDC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PennInDC<\/a>\u2019s foreign <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/policy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#policy<\/a> course, \u201cToday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Diplomacy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Diplomacy<\/a>: How Does It Really Work?\u201d He spoke about challenges to international order &amp; his view of the future of diplomacy. Thank you! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/niulzBQVCB\">pic.twitter.com\/niulzBQVCB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Penn Biden Center (@PennBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PennBiden\/status\/1088464903948718080?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Biden Center launched the same year as WestExec was founded. While the firm targets corporate and businesses leaders today, at the time, Schweizer narrates, it specifically listed aid to \u201cU.S. research universities\u201d as among the services it offered.<\/p>\n<p>According to an archived version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200726175137\/http:\/\/westexec.com\/\">site<\/a> (which featured a photo of Blinken), WestExec helped unnamed \u201cresearch universities\u201d \u201ccontinue to provide capability to and remain a trusted partner of the USG [U.S. government] while pursuing commercial activities in China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWestExec listed this as one of their services on their website\u2014until shortly before Joe Biden accepted the nomination for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention in August 2020,\u201d Schweizer write. \u201cThen they mysteriously deleted it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The founding of the Biden Center, <em>Red-Handed<\/em> elaborates, resulted in a windfall of donations coming from China for the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter the Biden Center\u2019s announcement that it was opening at the University of Pennsylvania, donations from the Chinese mainland to Penn almost tripled,\u201d the book reveals. \u201cIn the three years before the announcement, the university received around $15 million. In the three years after, the total was close to $40 million.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe latter number is $60 million from China if you include contracts,\u201d it concludes. While no public data exists on how much of those donations went to the Biden Center, a substantial percentage came from companies with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. As a communist regime, Beijing has a hand in nearly every corporate entity in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken\u2019s history prior to leading the Biden Center also raises grave concerns about his stance towards China. In <em>Red-Handed<\/em>, Schweizer details a 2012 incident in which Blinken, advising then-Vice President Joe Biden, encouraged the U.S. government to deny political asylum to a Chinese Communist Party defector who could have been a priceless intelligence asset for Washington.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Public Security Bureau official Wang Lijun snuck into the American consulate in Chengdu that year and requested asylum, Schweizer writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor thirty hours, Wang met with U.S. officials and offered to share everything that he knew \u2014 a clear intelligence boon,\u201d Schweizer wrote. \u201cBut Blinken reportedly halted the defection on fears that it would embarrass China on the eve of meetings with the Obama administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Blinken, Wang is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2012\/sep\/24\/china-police-chief-wang-lijun-jailed\">serving<\/a> a 15-year prison sentence for his attempt to escape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBlinken has claimed that he had no involvement in the Wang case,\u201d according to Schweizer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19904794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19904794\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-177575478.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chinese attendant stands near a screen showing a picture of former police chief Wang Lijun as he gives evidence on the third day of the trial of disgraced politician Bo Xilai at the Jinan Intermediate People\u2019s Court on August 24, 2013, in Jinan, China. (Feng Li\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fear of embarrassing China has been the hallmark of the State Department under Blinken. Nowhere was this more on display than during a disastrous summit in March 2021 in Anchorage, Alaska, where Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2021\/03\/22\/the-us-and-china-finally-get-real-with-each-other\/\">allowed<\/a> senior Politburo member Yang Jiechi \u2013 a longtime Bush family friend, Schweizer reveals in <em>Red-Handed<\/em> \u2013 to ramble on for 16 minutes about \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d and \u201cmany problems within the United States regarding human rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blinken \u2013 and his partner at the summit, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, a former paid fellow at a Yale Law School center founded by pro-communist Alibaba magnate Joseph Tsai \u2013 did little to refute the litany of slanderous comments deflecting from China\u2019s human rights atrocities and criminal behavior on the world stage.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19904586\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19904586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1231795872.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1098\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (2nd right), joined by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan (right), speaks while facing Yang Jiechi (2nd left), director of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Office, and Wang Yi (L), China\u2019s Foreign Minister, at the opening session of a U.S.-China summit in Anchorage, Alaska, on March 18, 2021. (FREDERIC J. BROWN\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The incident was so embarrassing to the United States that Chinese companies began <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/03\/23\/china-selling-swag-celebrating-victory-over-biden-diplomats-in-alaska\/\">selling<\/a> commemorative tote bags and cell phone cases with Yang Jiechi quotes from the summit on them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Red-Handed-American-Elites-Helping-China\/dp\/0063061147\/?tag=breitbart035-20\"><em>Red-Handed<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;was released by HarperCollins. Schweizer is the president of the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI) and a senior contributor to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken ran a consultant firm prior to becoming America\u2019s top diplomat that helped American universities \u201cnavigate problems\u201d with legally balancing Pentagon contracts and Chinese funding of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1303414","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\/1303414","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=1303414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303414\/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=1303414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}