{"id":1822873,"date":"2023-01-25T05:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1822873"},"modified":"2023-01-25T05:07:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T10:07:18","slug":"gop-wants-to-know-why-upenn-saw-surge-in-foreign-donations-after-it-opened-biden-think-tank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-wants-to-know-why-upenn-saw-surge-in-foreign-donations-after-it-opened-biden-think-tank\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Wants to Know Why UPenn Saw Surge in Foreign Donations After it Opened Biden Think Tank"},"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\">34<\/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%2Fgop-wants-to-know-why-upenn-saw-surge-in-foreign-donations-after-it-opened-biden-think-tank%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=1822873&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>\n<p>In the two years following the school&#8217;s partnership with Joe Biden, President of Biden (L), and Antony Blinken, Secretary of State (R), foreign funding for UPenn increased by three times.    <\/p>\n<p>The House Foreign Affairs Committee has asked Antony Blinken, President Joe Biden\u2019s secretary of state, for information on the sudden increase in foreign donations to Penn after the establishment of Penn Biden Center. Blinken was the managing director of this center.<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry, led by HFAC chairman Michael McCaul (R., Texas), could shed light on the Penn Biden Center\u2019s funding and whether think tank officials had any involvement with the university\u2019s solicitation of foreign donors. Foreign funding to the University of Pennsylvania tripled in the two years after the school teamed up with Biden to launch the Penn Biden Center in 2017, with most of that money\u2014$61 million\u2014coming from China, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/watchdog-calls-for-transparency-from-university-of-pennsylvanias-biden-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> In 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Donations &#8220;raise questions about the center\u2019s ties to\u2014or benefits derived from\u2014that funding, interactions you or others had with the donors, and whether People\u2019s Republic of China (PRC) linked individuals ever entered the center and came within close proximity of classified U.S. intelligence information,&#8221; McCaul wrote a letter Tuesday to Blinken.<\/p>\n<p>The Penn Biden Center has been under scrutiny after federal investigators discovered that classified documents from Biden\u2019s vice presidency were being stored at the think tank\u2019s offices in Washington, D.C., as well as at Biden\u2019s home in Wilmington, Del.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul wanted Blinken to reveal his personal information. &#8220;involvement in fundraising activities for the Center or the University of Pennsylvania (including donor outreach\/engagement), and whether you had knowledge of donations to the university by any PRC persons\/sources,&#8221; A complete list of all &#8220;PRC persons and\/or their representatives you met with while employed at the Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Were you involved in meetings\/engagements with foreign persons who had made or went on to make donations to the University of Pennsylvania or the Penn Biden Center?&#8221; He asked.<\/p>\n<p>McCaul also contacted Blinken to inquire about classified documents found at Penn Biden Center. He wanted to know if any of these records are State Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Foreign Affairs Committee is concerned about the national security and foreign policy implications of classified documents found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement,&#8221; McCaul wrote.<\/p>\n<p>According to the University of Pennsylvania, <em>Free Beacon<\/em> No month is better than this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Foreign Affairs Committee is pressing President Joe Biden&#8217;s secretary of state Antony Blinken for details on the sudden surge in foreign donations to University of Pennsylvania after the establishment of the Penn Biden Center, where Blinken served as managing director.<br \/>\nThe post GOP Wants to Know Why UPenn Saw Surge in Foreign Donations After it Opened Biden Think Tank appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":1822876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[3620,4303,5542,6203,4395,5907,8342],"class_list":["post-1822873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-biden","tag-donations","tag-foreign","tag-gop","tag-surge","tag-tank","tag-upenn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822873","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1822873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1822873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1822876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1822873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1822873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1822873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}