{"id":1387550,"date":"2022-03-18T07:42:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1387550"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T11:45:00","slug":"alexander-vindman-served-as-senior-fellow-at-grad-school-funded-by-chinese-communist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alexander-vindman-served-as-senior-fellow-at-grad-school-funded-by-chinese-communist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Vindman Served as Senior Fellow at Grad School Funded By Chinese Communist Group"},"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\">28<\/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%2Falexander-vindman-served-as-senior-fellow-at-grad-school-funded-by-chinese-communist-group%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=1387550&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 class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman served as a Senior Fellow at a graduate school receiving funds from and collaborating with a controversial Chinese Communist Party influence group flagged by the U.S. State Department for its efforts to infiltrate American politics, The National Pulse can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Vindman, who <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/02\/03\/vindman-requested-military-protection\/\">testified<\/a> during President Donald Trump\u2019s first impeachment trial, served as a\u00a0Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alexander-vindman-11340280\/\">Fellow<\/a> at Johns Hopkins University\u2019s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fpi.sais-jhu.edu\/alexander-vindman\">from<\/a> September 2020 to August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As a Foreign Policy Institute (FPI) Senior Fellow, Vindman also participated in several events <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RBaywQFqkAE\">promoting<\/a> his book \u201c<em>Here, Right Matters<\/em>\u201d with SAIS <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AVindman\/status\/1447955836362440706?s=20&#038;t=O2uwNmTPBBqcpeLGffFhzw\">during<\/a> his fellowship.<\/p>\n<p>SAIS, however, has accepted funding from the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) and sent its students on trips to China sponsored by the foreign influence group.<\/p>\n<p>CUSEF functions as part China\u2019s \u201cUnited Front,\u201d which the federal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/Research\/China&#039;s%20Overseas%20United%20Front%20Work%20-%20Background%20and%20Implications%20for%20US_final_0.pdf\">government<\/a> identifies as Beijing\u2019s covert operation \u201cto co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party\u201d and \u201cinfluence foreign governments to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettr.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/GETTR_GetOnGettr_DM_V02_A5.jpg\" alt=\"Get On Gettr\" style=\"text-align: center;\" \/>  <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>The U.S. State Department\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/2017-2021.state.gov\/designation-of-the-national-association-for-chinas-peaceful-unification-nacpu-as-a-foreign-mission-of-the-prc\/index.html\">compares<\/a> the United Front to the Chinese regime\u2019s \u201cmagic weapon\u201d to advance its preferred policies by infiltrating American politics, media, and academia.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/11\/28\/this-beijing-linked-billionaire-is-funding-policy-research-at-washingtons-most-influential-institutions-china-dc\/\">2017<\/a>, SAIS<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicnow.com\/view\/0A5A3D8B63C524CBA7C56382909C64935DA90E41?2017-08-01-18:00:14+01:00-xxx4923\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0announced<\/a> a new endowed professorship in its China Studies department and launched a new research project called the Pacific Community Initiative, which aims to examine \u201cwhat China\u2019s broader role in Asia and the world means for its neighbors and partners.\u201d Both projects were sizably funded by CUSEF, as <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/11\/28\/this-beijing-linked-billionaire-is-funding-policy-research-at-washingtons-most-influential-institutions-china-dc\/\">flagged<\/a> by\u00a0<em>Foreign Policy.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40066\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CUSEF Annual Report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Beyond accepting funding from CUSEF, which has used similar tactics on Western journalists in exchange for \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/08\/04\/exc-ccp-journalism-exchange-program-to-enhance-understanding\/\">favorable coverage<\/a>\u201d of the Chinese Communist Party, SAIS has also sent its students on trips to China.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/08\/group-targeting-election-integrity-led-by-ccp-former-senator\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ue052a23e7d588ee783e5debd901d19a1\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .ue052a23e7d588ee783e5debd901d19a1 { padding:0px; 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font-size: 16px; } .ue052a23e7d588ee783e5debd901d19a1:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">U.S. Election Integrity Lawyers Are Being Targeted By a Group Whose Leader Accepted a Chinese Communist Propaganda Junket.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn addition to partnering for the production of multiple China Forums over the years, CUSEF sponsors and organizes groups of Johns Hopkins SAIS graduate students to visit China,\u201d explains the CUSEF website, which as an entire page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusef.org.hk\/en\/what-we-do\/in-country-programs\/creating-relationships-through-education\/johns-hopkins-sais-students\">dedicated<\/a> to the group\u2019s collaboration with SAIS.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the most recent trip from November 17, 2017 to November 27, 2017, twenty students gained better understand the country\u2019s energy transition. During the 10-days\u2019 visit, the professors and the students visited Beijing, Shenzhen, Changzhou and Shanghai to engage in substantive meetings,\u201d added the influence group. The National Pulse has previously exposed students taking CUSEF-sponsored trips praising China as an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/news\/black-caucus-biden-hud-ccp-trips\/\">amazing<\/a> communist country\u201d superior to the U.S. upon return.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/jhsais2017-4-w2000h2000.jpg\" alt=\"Foundation Executive Director Alan Wong(center) hosts a dinner banquet for the Johns Hopkins University SAIS Student Exchange Program Students in Shenzhen\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CUSEF Executive Director Alan Wong hosts dinner banquet for SAIS Student Exchange Program in Shenzhen, China.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CUSEF and SAIS have also co-authored academic reports, including \u201c<em>The U.S. and China in Asia: Mitigating Tensions and Enhancing Cooperation<\/em>\u201d in 2019, the year before Vindman joined the school. The work \u201cfocuses on how the United States and China can mitigate tensions and enhance cooperation in key areas of interaction, thereby establishing a foundation for a broader community initiative in the future,\u201d according to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusef.org.hk\/resources\/publications\/monographus-china-in-asia2019.pdf\">intro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40065\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40065\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-07-at-3.33.12-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-07-at-3.33.12-PM.png 496w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-07-at-3.33.12-PM-480x627-1.png 480w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40065\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SAIS-CUSEF Report.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAIS has also co-hosted events with CUSEF, according to its 2016 annual report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn March 2016, CUSEF collaborated with Johns Hopkins School of Advanced and International Studies (SAIS) to co-host a public forum titled \u201cChina\u2019s New Economic Plans: Implications for China, Asia, and the Global Economy\u201d. Professor Liu Mingkang, former Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, was the keynote speaker,\u201d notes the document.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst Russia\u2019s ongoing invasion of Ukraine, Vindman has consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/ukraine\/2022-03-05\/america-must-do-more-help-ukraine-fight-russia\">called<\/a> for the U.S. to play a larger role in the conflict, despite polls <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/01\/27\/why-do-american-elites-want-war-in-ukraine\/\">revealing<\/a> most Americans feel otherwise.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20211111-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"Fund Real News\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lt. Col. 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