{"id":1949269,"date":"2023-06-16T14:25:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-unveils-50-million-partnership-with-chinese-university-that-conducts-military-research\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T14:27:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T18:27:57","slug":"bill-gates-unveils-50-million-partnership-with-chinese-university-that-conducts-military-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-unveils-50-million-partnership-with-chinese-university-that-conducts-military-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates announces $50M partnership with Chinese university for military research."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fbill-gates-unveils-50-million-partnership-with-chinese-university-that-conducts-military-research%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=1949269&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<h2>Funding comes despite the federal government&#8217;s concern about China&#8217;s scientific research integrity<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates and then-Chinese premier Li Keqiang in 2017 (Thomas Peter\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>Liberal billionaire Bill Gates on Thursday announced a $50 million collaboration with a notorious Chinese Communist Party-controlled university that conducts research for the nation&#8217;s military.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gates unveiled the partnership during a speech in Beijing, which the government-run propaganda outlet <em>Global Times<\/em> quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202306\/1292658.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covered<\/a> thanks to a transcript Gates shared with the rag. The $50 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund a research partnership with Tsinghua University, which holds &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-biden-climate-chief-graduated-from-chinese-university-thats-conducting-military-research-for-the-ccp\/\" title=\"New Biden Climate Chief Graduated From Chinese University That\u2019s Conducting Military Research For The CCP\">secret-level security credentials<\/a>&#8221; for classified military research, trains students for China&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, and has allegedly carried out cyberattacks for the Chinese government, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/unitracker.aspi.org.au\/universities\/tsinghua-university\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Strategic Policy Institute<\/a>. The university, from which Chinese president Xi Jinping graduated in 2002 with a degree in Marxist theory, is also funded by China&#8217;s Ministry of Education and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuef.tsinghua.edu.cn\/info\/picnew_eng\/2861\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">maintains<\/a> a &#8220;CCP Committee&#8221; that keeps the school &#8220;in accordance with President Xi&#8217;s hopes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gates&#8217;s partnership with Tsinghua is aimed at carrying out drug discovery research, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-gates-unveils-50-million-partnership-with-chinese-university-that-conducts-military-research\/\" title=\"Bill Gates announces M partnership with Chinese university for military research.\">involves studying potent viruses<\/a>. The billionaire&#8217;s willingness to work with a Chinese government-led entity to conduct such research, however, comes as scientific research integrity in the communist nation emerges as a point of concern for the U.S. government. The U.S. National Institutes of Health in 2019 launched a $300,000 grant to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fauci-praised-competent-trustworthy-scientists-in-wuhan-his-own-agency-said-they-needed-ethics-training-over-research-misconduct\/\" title=\"Fauci praised Wuhan scientists, but his agency needed ethics training for research misconduct.\">strengthen research integrity<\/a>&#8221; at China&#8217;s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and two major Chinese research institutions, citing troubling instances of &#8220;research misconduct,&#8221; &#8220;inadequate ethical review,&#8221; and &#8220;publication fraud.&#8221; Those problems, the agency said, &#8220;have had a negative impact on Chinese scientists and their U.S. collaborators&#8221; and &#8220;highlighted China&#8217;s underdeveloped research ethics capacity and infrastructure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congress has since moved to halt public funding to labs in China through its 2024 defense funding bill, which the House Appropriations Committee passed Thursday. As a nonprofit entity, Gates&#8217;s foundation would not be subject to the policy.<\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation will disburse its $50 million contribution over five years. The Beijing municipal government will also match the donation &#8220;in order to bolster the institute&#8217;s drug discovery capacity,&#8221; a Gates Foundation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatesfoundation.org\/ideas\/media-center\/press-releases\/2023\/06\/renew-commitment-ghddi-life-saving-therapies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release<\/a> said Thursday. Tsinghua University, the release continued, will support the endeavor by &#8220;building and sharing research platforms, translating research discovery, and developing talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the university&#8217;s military ties, the school is under the supervision of China&#8217;s State Administration for Science, Technology, and Industry for National Defense, a Chinese Communist Party entity that works to connect the nation&#8217;s academics with its defense sector.<\/p>\n<p>This is far from the first time that Gates, who during his trip to China this week called Chinese scientists &#8220;invaluable&#8221; to public health innovation, has funneled money to Chinese government agencies and military-tied universities. The billionaire&#8217;s foundation in 2021 sent nearly $30 million to Chinese organizations, including millions to the nation&#8217;s National Health Commission, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and Tsinghua.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gates while in China visited with Xi, marking the first meeting the Chinese president has held with a foreign private entrepreneur in recent years, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/bill-gates-set-to-meet-xi-jinping-in-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a>. Around the time of the meeting, investigative journalists Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi, and Alex Gutentag <a href=\"https:\/\/public.substack.com\/p\/first-people-sickened-by-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that the first people infected by the COVID-19 virus, known as &#8220;patients zero,&#8221; were researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Multiple government agencies believe that the virus came from that lab, despite Dr. Anthony Fauci&#8217;s efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/fauci-commissioned-report-to-dismiss-lab-leak-theory-emails-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dismiss the theory.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Gates Foundation did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a $50 million partnership with a Chinese university linked to the Communist Party, known for its military research. 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