{"id":1585216,"date":"2022-08-02T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1585216"},"modified":"2022-08-02T15:05:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T19:05:28","slug":"soft-on-china-koch-funded-think-tank-slams-pelosis-taiwan-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/soft-on-china-koch-funded-think-tank-slams-pelosis-taiwan-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft on China: Koch-Funded Think Tank Slams Pelosi\u2019s Taiwan Trip"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fsoft-on-china-koch-funded-think-tank-slams-pelosis-taiwan-trip%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=1585216&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>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Critique comes day after Quincy Institute scholar Jessica Lee joined Biden admin<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 2, 2022 2:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>An isolationist think tank bankrolled by George Soros and Charles Koch is galvanizing opposition to Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s trip to Taiwan, just a day after one of its top Asia scholars, who has lambasted the Biden administration&#8217;s approach to Beijing, took a job in the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Several scholars affiliated with the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft on Tuesday argued that Pelosi\u2019s trip to the contested island is &#8220;reckless, dangerous, unnecessary,&#8221; as Quincy Institute senior adviser Eli Clifton put it on Twitter, and could spark a conflict with the CCP. The organization\u2019s Twitter feed is boosting a range of voices known to be soft on China and critical of the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to rein in China\u2019s malign behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s reckless, dangerous, unnecessary, might spark a military confrontation with China and doesn\u2019t serve any purpose except spiting China,&#8221; Clifton\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliClifton\/status\/1554476521666277381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday, in one of several similar posts elevated by the think tank.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday amid a flurry of threats from China to launch a military strike as a result of her visit to the island. The Quincy Institute, like other CCP mouthpieces, is promoting the narrative that Pelosi\u2019s trip is unnecessarily provoking China. The Quincy Institute\u2019s campaign comes just a day after Jessica Lee, an expert with the organization, left to take a job as senior adviser for legislative affairs at the State Department, signaling that the American foreign policy community\u2019s most dovish voices are making inroads with the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>Lee has publicly blamed the Biden administration\u2019s &#8220;anti-China&#8221; policies for a rise in anti-Asian hate crimes and advocated a &#8220;cooperative relationship&#8221; with North Korea, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/biden-admin-taps-china-apologist-for-foggy-bottom-post\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington <\/em><em>Free Beacon<\/em> reported<\/a>\u00a0on Monday. &#8220;The continual naming and blaming of China as a bad actor on seemingly every front, as the source of all of America\u2019s problems, cultivates real fear and insecurity among Americans,&#8221; Lee said in a May 2021 video. &#8220;And it directly fuels violence against Americans of Asian descent. From physical attacks to outright murder, evidence of violent racism fueled by our anti-China policy is alarming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Quincy Institute\u2019s Twitter account is driving an echo chamber of criticism about Pelosi\u2019s visit to Taiwan, including the promotion of a <em>Time<\/em> article claiming &#8220;there are no benefits to a Pelosi visit to Taiwan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Has anyone put forward any plausible theory of what, in the absolute best case, a Pelosi trip to Taiwan accomplishes?&#8221; the Quincy Institute\u2019s Clifton <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EliClifton\/status\/1554319707787784192?s=20&#038;t=LwhQG3Pijgj8dL1A3lKkrQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a separate tweet also promoted by the think tank. &#8220;If there isn\u2019t a potential upside then this is a reckless provocation that puts U.S. service members in danger and strains D.C.-Beijing relations all for nothing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. should not [be] doubling down on the Pelosi visit,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dalzell60\/status\/1554447445677019137\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> Michael Swaine, the director of the Quincy Institute\u2019s East Asia program, in a lengthy <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuincyInst\/status\/1554441306784636929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is why I have said more than once that the Biden admin\u2019s [China] strategy is no strategy,&#8221; Swaine\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dalzell60\/status\/1554443082514546691\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s based on largely amorphous \u2018push-back\u2019 or \u2018competition&#8217; w\/ little sense of clear boundaries or the need [to] engage the [Chinese] in meaningful ways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Quincy Institute\u2019s Twitter account also urged its followers to read a Thomas Friedman column claiming Pelosi\u2019s trip is &#8220;utterly reckless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The think tank is also\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/QuincyInst\/status\/1554195763630153729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing back<\/a> against congressional attempts to provide increased military aid to Taiwan to help it defend itself against a possible invasion by China.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Critique comes day after Quincy Institute scholar Jessica Lee joined Biden admin  Getty Images  Adam Kredo \u2022 August 2, 2022 2:55 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"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-1585216","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\/1585216","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\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1585216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585216\/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=1585216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1585216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1585216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}