{"id":168611,"date":"2021-02-24T14:15:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=168611"},"modified":"2021-02-24T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T19:28:44","slug":"congressional-republicans-slam-carter-centers-china-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressional-republicans-slam-carter-centers-china-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional Republicans Slam Carter Center\u2019s China Ties"},"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%2Fcongressional-republicans-slam-carter-centers-china-ties%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=168611&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-484579098.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Congressional Republicans are demanding answers from the Carter Center for its collaboration with Chinese government-backed entities as part of a wider effort to crack down on Chinese influence-peddling efforts in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rep. Jody Hice (R., Ga.) and three other Georgia Republicans criticized the Carter Center for cohosting events with the United Front, the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s foreign influence arm, in a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/RSC_Carter_Center_Letter.pdf.pdf\">letter<\/a>. The Atlanta-based think tank was founded by its namesake, former president Jimmy Carter.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in National Security<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/momentum-grows-in-congress-to-boycott-beijing-olympics\/\"><strong>Momentum Grows in Congress to Boycott Beijing Olympics<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/congressional-republicans-slam-carter-centers-china-ties\/\"><strong>Congressional Republicans Slam Carter Center&#8217;s China Ties<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/new-bill-would-block-biden-admin-from-sending-gitmo-terrorists-to-the-u-s\/\"><strong>New Bill Would Block Biden Admin from Sending Gitmo Terrorists to the U.S.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The United Front is an organization which is deeply hostile to any idea contrary to Communism.\u2026 We are deeply troubled that the United Front continues to be given a platform to spread its propaganda in the United States,&#8221; the letter reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter&#8217;s publication coincides with a renewed push from other congressional Republicans to restrict China&#8217;s activities in the United States. Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Jim Banks (R., Ind.) introduced legislation that will severely restrict the United Front and other CCP-linked influence groups in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party expands its disinformation campaign each day,&#8221; Cotton told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon.<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The United Front Work Department is just another venue for the CCP to spread its propaganda and to co-opt foreign groups to toe the CCP line. We must put an end to their tactics.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chinese government-backed entities have spent large sums of money to peddle pro-Beijing propaganda across the world. The United Front and other China-backed groups have a long history of targeting think tanks such as the Carter Center to disseminate pro-China propaganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF), a nonprofit group backed by the United Front, has<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/11\/28\/this-beijing-linked-billionaire-is-funding-policy-research-at-washingtons-most-influential-institutions-china-dc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">channeled<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">millions of dollars to famed U.S. think tanks such as the Brookings Institution, Center for American Progress, and the Atlantic Council. The Carter Center received more than $100,000 from the foundation in 2019 alone,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cartercenter.org\/resources\/pdfs\/news\/annual_reports\/annual-report-19.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">according<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to its most recent annual report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The letter criticized the Carter Center for cohosting an event with the U.S. Heartland China Association\u2014another group with<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cusef.org.hk\/en\/what-we-do\/in-country-programs\/engaging-with-american-leaders\/the-inaugural-us-heartland-mayor-delegation-trip-to-china\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">links<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to CUSEF\u2014that featured a moderator who works for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The legislators also took issue with another event that the Atlanta-based think tank cohosted with a group with links to the Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-backed group that disseminated pro-Beijing propaganda in more than 100 American colleges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The Chinese Communist Party will do anything possible to manipulate world opinion by pushing their misleading propaganda and aggressive disinformation,&#8221; Hice said. &#8220;This is even happening in our backyard.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Banks-Cotton bill aims to decisively end the Chinese propaganda effort by imposing economic sanctions on the United Front. The legislation will also ban United Front members from entering the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Banks said Republicans must continue to hold China accountable even if the new White House is inclined to pursue a more conciliatory approach to the authoritarian country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;The leadership in Washington may have changed, but China\u2019s political warfare hasn\u2019t. It\u2019s fallen to Congress to expose and counter Communist Party disinformation. We can\u2019t back down now,&#8221; Banks said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congressional Republicans are demanding answers from the Carter Center for its collaboration with Chinese government-backed entities as part of a wider effort to crack down on Chinese influence-peddling efforts in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274143,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-484579098.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressional Republicans Slam Carter Center\u2019s China Ties","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-484579098.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressional Republicans Slam Carter Center\u2019s China Ties","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168611","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=168611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}