{"id":1926747,"date":"2023-05-08T15:41:51","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-china-used-a-prominent-hbcu-to-spin-its-pandemic-response\/"},"modified":"2023-05-08T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T19:43:58","slug":"how-china-used-a-prominent-hbcu-to-spin-its-pandemic-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-china-used-a-prominent-hbcu-to-spin-its-pandemic-response\/","title":{"rendered":"China used a top HBCU to manipulate its pandemic response."},"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\">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%2Fhow-china-used-a-prominent-hbcu-to-spin-its-pandemic-response%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=1926747&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--><h2>Chinese Propaganda Machine Taps Historically Black University to Spin COVID-19 Response<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a think tank in the Chinese government\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/princeton-took-millions-from-ccp-linked-school-think-tank-head\/\" title=\"Princeton Took Millions From CCP-Linked School, Think Tank Head\">foreign influence network<\/a>, sponsored a report from students at Morgan State University that analyzed China and America\u2019s handling of the pandemic, according to Justice Department filings. The report is filled with analysis that treats the Chinese and American responses to coronavirus as equal, ignoring growing evidence that Beijing has lied about the virus leaking from a lab in Wuhan.<\/p>\n<h3>The Report<\/h3>\n<p>The 97-page report credits the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s centralized political system with allowing the quick dissemination of foreign aid, in contrast to America&#8217;s system which &#8220;[weakened] the stability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heres-how-the-gops-stimulus-package-compares-to-bidens\/\" title=\"Here\u2019s How the GOP\u2019s Stimulus Package Compares to Biden\u2019s\">public health aid<\/a>.&#8221; It says the Wuhan lab theory is a &#8220;long-lasting anti-China narrative hyped by some think tanks, media, and online communities in the U.S.&#8221; The report asserts that former president Donald Trump &#8220;ruined&#8221; the reputation of the United States and laments that rhetoric about the virus has caused anti-Asian bias.<\/p>\n<h3>Morgan State University<\/h3>\n<p>Morgan State, located just an hour from the nation&#8217;s capital in Baltimore, Maryland, is led by David Wilson, who last month accompanied Vice President Kamala Harris on her trip to Ghana. Wilson met with National Security adviser Jake Sullivan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-china-used-a-prominent-hbcu-to-spin-its-pandemic-response\/\" title=\"China used a top HBCU to manipulate its pandemic response.\">discuss national security issues<\/a> in February. The collaboration between the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation and Morgan State, which as a leading HBCU is the recipient of massive amounts of taxpayer funds, is a major cause for concern, according to one China watcher.<\/p>\n<h3>The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation isn&#8217;t a mysterious organization,&#8221; says Michael Sobolik, a fellow in Indo-Pacific studies at the American Foreign Policy Council. &#8220;It&#8217;s a known entity in the policy and academic communities at this point, and it&#8217;s pretty difficult to claim ignorance of the group&#8217;s ties to the Chinese Communist Party. It&#8217;s a united front group that infiltrates U.S. higher education to shape the way American students view China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Concerns<\/h3>\n<p>American officials, including CIA director William Burns, have identified the foundation as a key weapon in China\u2019s campaign to influence American foreign policy towards Beijing. &#8220;If Morgan State University truly cares about the education of its students, its leaders should sever its partnership with the China-U.S. Exchange Foundation immediately,&#8221; Sobolik told the Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n<h3>Wilson Global Communications<\/h3>\n<p>The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation\u2019s relationship with Morgan State has been managed by Wilson Global Communications, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm. Wilson Global, which is registered as a foreign agent of the foundation, has hosted student trips for HBCU students to China and organized events with Congressional Black Caucus leaders to beef up U.S.-China ties.<\/p>\n<h3>Conclusion<\/h3>\n<p>Like much of China\u2019s propaganda, it is unclear how much impact it had on perception of how China handled the virus. However, the report preaches cooperation between the United States and China, saying the superpowers &#8220;should work together rather than compete and point fingers at one another,&#8221; echoing a common theme from other Chinese propagandists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Communist Party\u2019s propaganda machine recently tapped a prominent historically black university with ties to Vice President Kamala Harris to spin Beijing\u2019s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, a think tank in the Chinese government\u2019s foreign influence network, sponsored a report from students at Morgan State University that analyzed China and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":1926748,"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":[4501,26181,20642,4828,4115],"class_list":["post-1926747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-china","tag-hbcu","tag-manipulate","tag-pandemic","tag-response"],"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\/1926747","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\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1926747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1926747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1926748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1926747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1926747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1926747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}