{"id":1972486,"date":"2023-07-13T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg-2\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T19:42:19","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:42:19","slug":"ccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"CCP donates $3B to US universities, just the beginning."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg-2%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=1972486&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 class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0713\/d2025853-5ed8-4f6d-9031-8c1791e1af59\/audio.mp3?length=4981581&#038;duration=415\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has donated over $3 billion to U.S. universities in the past 30 years. But experts say that&#8217;s just the beginning. The U.S. Department of Education has not consistently enforced the law requiring schools to report foreign contributions exceeding $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>These contributions provide the CCP and other foreign entities with access to American campuses, where they conduct influence campaigns and steal intellectual property, according to some experts and lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These dollars come with strings attached, which are then used to leverage American faculty and students,&#8221; said Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), chair of the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.<\/p>\n<p>For example, foreign funds are used to set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg\/\" title=\"CCP donates B to US universities, but experts claim it's just the beginning.\">state-backed cultural exchange centers<\/a> that operate as cultural indoctrination centers. China donates money to American universities to fund Confucius Institutes, renowned campus hubs known for pushing propaganda, like denial of the Tiananmen Square Massacre,&#8221; Mr. Owens said.<\/p>\n<p>Those organizations also monitor and threaten Chinese international students in the United States if they criticize the CCP, Mr. Owens said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5111137\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/03\/09\/Screenshot-2023-03-08-at-3.19.27-PM-1200x640.png\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<p>Others urge caution in addressing the situation to avoid backlash against Asian Americans or hindering scholars&#8217; ability to collaborate with international counterparts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must ensure that colleges and universities are transparent about their ties to foreign entities,&#8221; said Ranking Member Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fear that my Republican colleagues have overemphasized enforcement, rather than providing guidance regarding how to comply with the law,&#8221; Ms. Wilson added. &#8220;Asking for accountability and compliance in this hearing can occur without scapegoating our Asian American community.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Mandatory Reporting<\/h2>\n<p>Federal law requires U.S. colleges and universities to report donations or contracts worth over $250,000 from foreign entities to the Department of Education twice a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately, the department&#8217;s enforcement efforts have historically been very uneven,&#8221; said Paul Moore, senior counsel at the Defense of Freedom Institute.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Moore cited a 2004 rule change that allows institutions to withhold the names of foreign donors, resulting in a significant increase in foreign contributions from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and other countries.<\/p>\n<p>An October 2020 report by the Department of Education revealed that heightened enforcement efforts led to the disclosure of $6.5 billion in unreported foreign donations. However, fewer than 300 out of approximately 6,000 institutions of higher education in the United States voluntarily report foreign contributions as required by law.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Moore, the difficulty lies not in following the law, but in institutions choosing not to report the readily available data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our investigations found that the universities had the information we wanted readily at hand, but they were extremely reluctant to provide it to us,&#8221; said Mr. Moore, former chief investigative counsel at the Department of Education.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were already very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ccp-has-donated-3-billion-to-us-universities-but-experts-say-its-tip-of-iceberg-2\/\" title=\"CCP donates B to US universities, just the beginning.\">systematically tracking foreign contracts<\/a>, foreign gifts, and of course, pursuing donors around the world with great vigor,&#8221; Mr. Moore said. &#8220;They could simply have made an effort to tap the information they were already collecting and producing, and provide that accurately to the department as required by Section 117.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5383726\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/07\/09\/id5383726-07062023-DSC06406-Education-Department-1200x800.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n  <\/figure>\n<h2>&#8216;Whack-a-Mole&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Monitoring funds from known bad actors is challenging because they can disband one organization and funnel money through another.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Singleton, China program deputy director and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, compared it to a game of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-director-michigan-should-close-things-down\/\" title=\"CDC Director: Michigan Should \u2018Close Things Down\u2019\">whack-a-mole<\/a>, where one problematic organization disappears, and another takes its place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In dozens of documented cases, U.S. universities that shuttered their Confucius Institutes chose to maintain, and in some cases expand, academic and sensitive research relationships with their Chinese sister universities,&#8221; testified Mr. Singleton.<\/p>\n<p>Confucius Institutes (CIs) are government-sponsored organizations that promote a sanitized version of the CCP&#8217;s history and human rights abuses under the guise of teaching Chinese language, culture, and history, according to Mr. Singleton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In other cas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>foreign entities significant influence over academic research and campus activities, raising concerns about potential censorship and ideological bias. The lack of transparency surrounding these donations poses a threat to academic freedom and national security, prompting calls for stricter enforcement and increased scrutiny of foreign funding in American universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1793,"featured_media":1972487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/1972486","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\/1793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1972487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}