{"id":1807137,"date":"2023-01-16T10:05:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1807137"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:07:08","slug":"biden-removed-chinese-military-company-from-u-s-blacklist-after-its-ceo-spoke-at-upenn-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-removed-chinese-military-company-from-u-s-blacklist-after-its-ceo-spoke-at-upenn-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Removed Chinese Military Company From U.S. Blacklist After Its CEO Spoke at UPenn Event"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-removed-chinese-military-company-from-u-s-blacklist-after-its-ceo-spoke-at-upenn-event%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=1807137&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-->\n<p>The University of Pennsylvania hosted a summit on China that featured controversial connections to the Chinese Communist Party. It hosted a number of speakers, including TikTok CEOs and Chinese military proxies.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn Wharton China Summit was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wharton.upenn.edu\/story\/penn-wharton-china-summit-brings-industry-leaders-from-china-to-campus\/\">described<\/a> As \u201cone of the most widely attended conferences focusing on China in American academia\u201d The conference featured high-ranking members from the Chinese Communist Party as speakers.<\/p>\n<p>The Undiscovered <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210620230011\/http:\/\/whartonsummit.org\/\">event<\/a> \u2013 which has seen its landing page <a href=\"https:\/\/whartonsummit.org\/\">erased<\/a> from the internet \u2013 follows the discovery of classified documents at the Washington, D.C. office of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. It also follows intense <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/09\/54m-in-chinese-gifts-donated-to-upenn-home-of-biden-center\/\">scrutiny<\/a> Over a lack transparency into tens and millions of dollars flowing to the Ivy League University from China<\/p>\n<p>In what appears to be another conflict of interest, companies led by CEOs speaking at the event in 2019 \u2013 such as TikTok and XiaoMi \u2013 have received favorable treatment from the Biden White House.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15471\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15471\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-15471\" src=\"https:\/\/warroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-300x116.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"758\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/warroom.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-300x116.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-1024x397-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-768x298-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-1536x595-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-2048x794-1.png 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-1320x511-1.png 1320w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-750x291-1.png 750w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Screen-Shot-2023-01-14-at-5.05.26-PM-1140x442-1.png 1140w\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2019 Speakers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lei Jun, the CEO of XiaoMi, spoke at the event before the Trump administration placed the smartphone giant on a blacklist over its ties to the People\u2019s Liberation Army. He also spoke during the 2016 <a href=\"http:\/\/english.cctv.com\/2016\/04\/05\/VIDErWlGwIRISLB9dCAvYmC4160405.shtml\">summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This designation was in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/amp\/s\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/u-s-blacklisted-chinas-xiaomi-because-of-award-given-to-its-founder-11614947281\">response<\/a> to the company\u2019s involvement with Chinese Communist Party initiatives to topple U.S. technological supremacy and its CEO receiving the \u201cOutstanding Builder of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics\u201d Award from the Chinese government in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>In President Biden\u2019s first few months, however, he reversed Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/us-defense-department-xiaomi-agree-resolve-litigation-court-filing-2021-05-12\/\">decision<\/a> To blacklist the company.<\/p>\n<p>Zhang Yiming, CEO of ByteDance, also spoke at the summit. ByteDance, Zhang&#8217;s parent company, is responsible for TikTok social media platform. <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2020\/08\/09\/tiktok-socialist-values-founders\/\">pledged<\/a> Use to \u201cpromote socialist core values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden has failed to ban the app in the U.S., revoking the Trump administration\u2019s short-lived executive order which accomplished the feat.<\/p>\n<p>Max Baucus, a former Ambassador to China, has also been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/whartonPWCS\/photos\/2220854398167694\">addressed<\/a> The event with a prominently featured speaker.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-mia3-2.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.6435-9\/55823769_2220854401501027_6697543572993867776_n.jpg?_nc_cat=110&#038;ccb=1-7&#038;_nc_sid=8bfeb9&#038;_nc_ohc=sivXGbJRdFgAX_Bu2B1&#038;tn=u1ul2J32YBvg8odn&#038;_nc_ht=scontent-mia3-2.xx&#038;oh=00_AfAFwVlfn73jRXwIi0lqhiX_Ry3B5ivoOOYupU3nMY6k2Q&#038;oe=63EA8E8B\" alt=\"No photo description available.\" width=\"428\" height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Ambassador to China And Senator from Montana has donated to Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/crec\/2009\/07\/08\/CREC-2009-07-08-pt1-PgS7261.pdf\">Senate<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/opensecrets.org\/orgs\/\/summary?id=D000033881&#038;cycle=A\">presidential<\/a>\u00a0campaigns, endorsed his 2020 bid with \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/m.youtube.com\/watch?v=u5rkiyuQ-2U\">no question in mind,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Even better!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/billingsgazette.com\/news\/state-and-regional\/montana\/vice-president-biden-in-helena-for-baucus-wedding\/article_992bfc04-f8da-5da3-9ebf-f3998336a29f.html\">invited<\/a> Biden at his wedding.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, according to reports, is a \u201cgood friend\u201d of Baucus\u2019s, even took Air Force Two to the wedding.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/coronavirus\/biden-china-trade\/\">same<\/a> Speech in which Biden praised the virtues of a \u201crising China,\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/2009-2017.state.gov\/secretary\/remarks\/2015\/09\/247326.htm\">commended<\/a>\u00a0Baucus \u201ca great friend and doing a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/12\/senator-max-baucus-senate-democrat-us-ambassador-china-barack-obama-101361\">\u201cchief advocate<\/a>\u201d of Baucus\u2019s ascension to ambassador, Joe Biden laid the groundwork for a nearly four-decades-long friend who bizarrely admitted he was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/in-the-loop\/wp\/2014\/01\/31\/presumptive-ambassador-to-china-baucus-im-no-real-expert-on-china\/\">\u201cno real expert on China\u201d<\/a> To receive the role.<\/p>\n<p>Also in attendance was Cui Tiankai, a Chinese Communist Party diplomat and longest-serving Chinese Ambassador to the United States, and Consul General of the People\u2019s republic of China Huang Ping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Pennsylvania hosted a summit on China that featured controversial connections to the Chinese Communist Party. 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