{"id":1571641,"date":"2022-07-26T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1571641"},"modified":"2022-07-26T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T16:20:40","slug":"bill-gates-funds-chinas-scientist-recruitment-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-funds-chinas-scientist-recruitment-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Funds China\u2019s Scientist Recruitment Project"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbill-gates-funds-chinas-scientist-recruitment-project%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=1571641&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><span>The Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation is giving money to the Chinese regime amid the regime\u2019s bid to tempt foreign scientists into the country<\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Bill Gates\u2019s foundation issued a $100,000 grant in June to the Foreign Talent Research Center (FTRC) of China\u2019s Ministry of Science and Technology, according to the Gates Foundation\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/about\/committed-grants\/2022\/06\/inv045733\">website,<\/a>\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/07\/20\/gates-foundation-funds-chinas-science-ministry\/\">National Pulse first reported<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The funding is to help the Chinese regime organize a forum hosted by Zhongguancun\u2014China\u2019s state-sponsored Silicon Valley\u2014on \u201cpandemic preparedness and response.\u201d\u00a0The forum has featured top leaders of the regime as speakers including, in its 2021 event, regime leader Xi Jinping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While the 2022 forum will feature discussion topics such as global health and supporting pandemic-impacted \u201cdisadvantaged populations,\u201d the agency affiliated with the Communist regime that\u2019s sponsoring the event, FTRC, oversees the hiring of foreign talents in science and engineering for China\u2019s strategic goals such as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.most.gov.cn\/organization\/\">military-civil integration<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, the forum\u2019s objectives go beyond talking about technology and health topics: as the organizers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zgcforum.com.cn\/zh\/newsltdt\/20220708\/4484.html\">say<\/a>, they aim to \u201cnecessary to earnestly study and understand the spirit of the General Secretary\u2019s [2021] speech\u201d and build a technological hub in \u201cserving the national strategy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Warnings of China\u2019s Threat<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>The foundation\u2019s commitment to bolstering China\u2019s scientific advancement came amid mounting warnings of the threat the regime poses to the United States and the West.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Leaders from the UK and U.S. domestic intelligence agencies delivered a rare joint <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/chinese-communist-party-threat-is-massive-fbi-and-mi5-directors_4581021.html\"><span>statement<\/span><\/a><span> on July 6, warning that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the greatest threat to the international order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>FBI Director Christopher Wray said the greatest challenge to the international order is the CCP, which seeks to undermine the United States, its allies, and its partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Meanwhile, MI5 Director General Ken McCallum detailed threats posed by the CCP in relation to covert theft, forced technology transfers, research exploitation, and cyberattacks that target virtually every sector of society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>U.S. officials have also warned that the Chinese regime uses recruitment programs, such as the \u201cthousand talents plan,\u201d to lure foreign academics to work in China, a process that facilitates the transfer of technology and know-how to the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Trump administration launched the \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/as-critics-seek-to-dismantle-dojs-crackdown-on-chinese-espionage-others-say-program-is-necessary-but-needs-reform_4291886.html\"><span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-china-initiative\">China Initiative<\/a><\/span><\/a><span>\u201d in 2018 to combat the Chinese regime\u2019s state-sponsored espionage and theft of trade secrets. The program led to the prosecution of some two dozen U.S. academics, most of them of Chinese origin, who were alleged to have concealed funding ties with Chinese institutions and state-backed recruitment plans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Biden administration <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/doj-terminates-program-targeting-chinese-espionage-amid-accusations-of-racism_4298077.html\"><span>shut down<\/span><\/a><span> the program in February amid criticisms of the program as racial profiling. Thus, chilling scientific exchanges between the United States and China surged.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Ties With Beijing<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span>The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set up its Beijing office in 2007 and has since worked with the Chinese government on several domestic projects in the country, as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2021\/05\/05\/tech\/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-china-intl-hnk\/index.html\"><span>reported<\/span><\/a><span> by CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Over the past three decades, Gates has visited China at least \u201ca dozen times,\u201d forging friendly relations with its top leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 2015, Xi met with Gates. Last year, Xi <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/chinas-xi-writes-thank-note-bill-gates-virus-034720758.html\"><span>wrote <\/span><\/a><span>a letter to Gates, thanking him for his efforts in combating the virus that started in the country Xi presides over.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI deeply appreciate the act of generosity of the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation and your letter of solidarity to the Chinese people at such an important moment,\u201d the letter read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It came after the foundation committed to funding up to $100 million for the global bid to tackle the COVID-19 outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The foundation at the time informed that it would allocate $20 million to organizations like the World Health Organization, the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Protection, the National Health Commission of China, and the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Andrew Thornebrooke contributed to this report.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-hannah-ng\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/default-user.png\" alt=\"Hannah Ng\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hannah Ng is a reporter covering U.S. and China news. She holds a master&#8217;s degree in international and development economics from the University of Applied Science Berlin. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation is giving money to the Chinese regime amid the regime\u2019s bid to tempt foreign scientists into the country.Bill Gates\u2019s foundation issued a $100,000 grant<\/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-1571641","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\/1571641","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=1571641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1571641\/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=1571641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1571641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1571641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}