{"id":1414395,"date":"2022-04-01T08:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414395"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:15:34","slug":"bidens-cia-director-told-congress-he-terminated-a-relationship-with-a-ccp-influence-group-new-evidence-suggests-this-was-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-cia-director-told-congress-he-terminated-a-relationship-with-a-ccp-influence-group-new-evidence-suggests-this-was-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s CIA Director Told Congress He Terminated a Relationship With a CCP Influence Group \u2013 New Evidence Suggests This Was a Lie"},"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\">44<\/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-director-told-congress-he-terminated-a-relationship-with-a-ccp-influence-group-new-evidence-suggests-this-was-a-lie%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=1414395&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>The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \u2013 formerly led by Joe Biden\u2019s Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns \u2013 has continued its relationship with Chinese Communist Party influence groups despite Burns claiming otherwise during sworn testimony to the U.S. Senate, The National Pulse can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Burns became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in March 2015 and claimed, during Senate confirmation hearings, that he merely \u201cinherited\u201d the think tank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/exclusive\/biden-cia-director-ccp\/\">longstanding<\/a> relationship with the China-United States-Exchange Foundation (CUSEF).<\/p>\n<h4><span><strong>Lying to Congress?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>Purporting to be \u201cincreasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations,\u201d Burns \u2013 who currently leads the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) \u2013 was adamant he cut Carnegie\u2019s ties with CUSEF \u201cnot long after\u201d he began his tenure while answering <a href=\"https:\/\/air.tv\/?v=ck-yoHYGSjO-RoTgrYx9GQ\">questions<\/a> from Senator Marco Rubio.\u00a0<span><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rubio explained that CUSEF is part of the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s United Front Work Department, which seeks \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\u2019s preferred policies,\u201d\u00a0<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\">according<\/a> to the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. State Department also <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>\u00a0the United Front to the Chinese regime\u2019s \u201cmagic weapon\u201d to advance its preferred policies by infiltrating American politics, media, and academia.<\/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>In response, Burns claimed that \u201c\u2026on the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, this is a relationship that I inherited when I became president of Carnegie and that I ended not long after I became president precisely for the concerns that you just described because we were increasingly worried about the expansion of Chinese influence operations. Shortly after I ended that relationship, we began a program at the Carnegie Endowment on countering foreign influence operations which was aimed mostly at China and Russia and was supported in part from a grant from the Global Engagement Center at the State Department in the last administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/28\/ecohealth-alliance-investments-surged-amidst-covid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07:active, .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07 .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .u2b8e0f610f368a0d4db8e06065bcbc07:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">Fauci\u2019s COVID-Origins Allies, the EcoHealth Alliance, Boosted Investment Income by 350% Since Pre-Pandemic.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<h4><span><strong>Still A \u2018United Front\u2019.<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p>But Burns\u2019s think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/news\/biden-cia-lies-about-cusef-ties\/\">continued<\/a> to accept funds and collaborate with officials tied to CUSEF during his tenure, and recently released <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/files\/Perkovich_et_al_Cyber_Attribution_web.pdf\">another<\/a> research paper on the subject of cyber attacks, in partnership with CUSEF and other Chinese Communist Party-funded institutions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/files\/Perkovich_et_al_Cyber_Attribution_web.pdf\">paper<\/a>, released March 2022, is the latest piece of evidence contradicting Burns\u2019s assertions.<\/p>\n<p>The 76-pager \u2013 \u201c<em>Managing U.S.-China Tensions Over Public Cyber Attribution<\/em>\u201d \u2013\u00a0is the second joint research publication produced by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (SIIS) in collaboration with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.<\/p>\n<p>A foreword to the work by SIIS President Chen Dongxiao thanks CUSEF for its \u201cgenerous support\u201d of the effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Authors contributing to the paper included several individuals from the SIIS Research Center for Global Cyberspace Governance \u2013 a \u201cjoint effort\u201d involving China\u2019s National Defense University and the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS).<\/p>\n<p>SASS has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacificcouncil.org\/about\/network\/profile\/thomas-zimmerman\">flagged<\/a>\u00a0by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) for its close ties to the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s top spy agency: the Ministry of State Security.<\/p>\n<p>SASS \u2013 which the FBI\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/brookings-institution-partnered-with-shanghai-policy-center-under-scrutiny-for-spying\/\">explicitly labels<\/a>\u00a0a \u201cfront group for Chinese intelligence collection and overseas spy recruitment\u201d \u2013 was a key player in a 2019 criminal case involving a retired Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative selling classified U.S. defense documents to the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-40460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM-800x405-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"741\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM-800x405-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM-1160x587-1.png 1160w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM-1536x778-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM-480x243-1.png 480w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-11.14.46-AM.png 1920w\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The publication is a compendium of six papers \u2013 authored by SIIS fellows and their Carnegie counterparts \u2013 focusing on how governments should publicly respond to cyberattacks. Chapters include \u201cAttribution and Characterization of Cyber Attacks\u201d and \u201cThe Purpose of U.S. Government Public Cyber Attribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/03\/21\/saudi-sign-oil-deal-with-biden-linked-oil-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2:active, .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2 .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .ub09abbc7a3517711d28e9239b30232e2:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">EXC: Saudis Sign Gas Deal With Hunter Biden-Linked Chinese Energy Firm.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The paper explains in great detail the U.S. government\u2019s approach to responding \u2013 both publicly and privately \u2013 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/07\/07\/fbi-chief-slams-chinese-cyberattacks-against-us-hudson-institute.html\">cyberattacks<\/a> conducted by China, effectively granting the Chinese Communist Party America\u2019s playbook on the issue.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_40459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40459\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40459 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-800x788-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-800x788-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-480x473-1.png 480w, https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM-96x96.png 96w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-29-at-10.49.12-AM.png 1158w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chart From Paper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The paper also appears to undermine U.S. attribution of cyberattacks to Chinese actors, with one SIIS fellow writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYet so long as the United States is making accusations outside of the international legal system and without sufficient evidence to hold the Chinese government accountable, Chinese observers will question the United States\u2019 intention in launching unilateral accusations: Are they to warn against cyber operations? To simply point fingers at China? Or to ease domestic pressure? This further highlights the need for both states to strengthen communication and cooperation in public attribution.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The unearthed paper follows the Carnegie Endowment collaborating with SIIS on a publication focused on nuclear energy <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/04\/30\/biden-cia-director-lied-about-ccp-ties\/\">collaboration<\/a> in April 2021.<\/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>The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace \u2013 formerly led by Joe Biden\u2019s Central Intelligence Agency Director Bill Burns \u2013 has continued its relationship with Chinese Communist Party influence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"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-1414395","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\/1414395","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414395\/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=1414395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}