{"id":206909,"date":"2021-03-10T05:14:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=206909"},"modified":"2021-03-10T05:14:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T10:14:47","slug":"ivy-league-colleges-partner-with-chinese-health-institutions-tied-to-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ivy-league-colleges-partner-with-chinese-health-institutions-tied-to-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivy League Colleges Partner With Chinese Health Institutions Tied to Military"},"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\">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%2Fivy-league-colleges-partner-with-chinese-health-institutions-tied-to-military%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=206909&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/China-flag-2-e1598041910929.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ivy League universities and medical schools are partnering with China-backed institutions considered to be grave national security risks.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard University, Yale School of Medicine, and the University of Pennsylvania partner with Chinese institutions backed by the Chinese military or the Chinese Communist Party.&nbsp;The universities arranged educational programming and collaborative research with regime groups in China, conducting studies focused on Chinese health planning.<\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in National Security<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ivy-league-colleges-partner-with-chinese-health-institutions-tied-to-military\/\"><strong>Ivy League Colleges Partner With Chinese Health Institutions Tied to Military<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/top-pentagon-nominee-ignored-warnings-from-colleagues-about-his-twitter-snark-its-coming-back-to-bite-him\/\"><strong>Top Pentagon Nominee Ignored Warnings from Colleagues About His Twitter Snark. It&#8217;s Coming Back to Bite Him.<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/microsoft-responds-to-china-cyber-attack-by-expanding-business-in-china\/\"><strong>Microsoft Responds to China Cyber Attack by Expanding Business in China<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harvard University\u2019s T.H. Chan School of Public Health runs a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.sph.harvard.edu\/china-health-partnership\/partners\/\">health partnership<\/a> with seven Chinese universities focused on academic exchange and trains Chinese program participants to act as agents for reform in the Chinese health care system. At least six of the seven universities in Harvard\u2019s consortium have serious security risks, as they are tied to other research on behalf of the People\u2019s Liberation Army.<\/p>\n<p>Three of the seven universities\u2014Sichuan University, Xi\u2019an Jiaotong University, and Tsinghua University\u2014help develop&nbsp;technologies for Chinese defense, including the Chinese nuclear program. All three of these universities have links to Chinese cyber espionage efforts.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ian Easton, a senior director in China policy at the Project 2049 Institute, said elite universities are inadvertently opening up a new battlefront in the United States&#8217; competition with China: health care. The partnerships could undermine patient privacy in both China and the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;You may not be interested in the CCP, but the CCP is interested in you. It wants to collect all your personal and private data. It wants to leverage your data against you, your values, and your way of life,&#8221; Easton said. &#8220;The danger of that happening is very real. There is nothing benign or humanistic about the CCP&#8217;s approach to medicine, and its exploitation of the global biotech industry ought to be repudiated.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Yale School of Medicine has a longstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.yale.edu\/core\/current_projects\/china\/\">partnership<\/a> with the Chinese city of Shenzhen and a network of hospitals across China, doing research to streamline China\u2019s approach to health care. Yale also assisted in building a database that collected biomedical data from 400,000 Chinese people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The University of Pennsylvania\u2019s Center for Global Health runs its own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.upenn.edu\/globalhealth\/penn-china-anesthesia-program.html\">program<\/a> cooperating with Beijing. The Penn-China Anesthesia Program<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&nbsp;works with Peking Union Medical College, one of China\u2019s elite institutions for medical research. The college is directly overseen by the Chinese Communist Party\u2019s National Health Commission, which oversees Chinese health care policy. The commission has been <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-pledge-to-rejoin-u-n-would-hurt-u-s-position-against-china-experts-say\/\">linked<\/a> to human-rights abuses perpetrated against Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania did not respond to requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Easton said the partnerships are indicative of a pattern that cannot be ignored\u2014some of America\u2019s leading institutions are engaging in exchanges that harm America\u2019s national security and the interests of the Chinese people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;While U.S.-PRC medical exchanges may have seemed acceptable in the past, they look different today when cast in the lurid light of the facts we currently have before us,&#8221; Easton said.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;China&#8217;s government is engaging in mass genocide, a crime against humanity. This is going on right now. Today, Beijing is the most egregious violator of human rights on the planet.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Such partnerships are just one aspect in the larger competition in global health and medicine. A February <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/report-china-is-stealing-dna-of-american-citizens\/\">report<\/a> from the director of national intelligence revealed that planners in Beijing attempt to use biomedical data from American citizens to potentially harm U.S. interests. China also continues to pursue &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-china-parliament-vaccine\/concerns-over-china-vaccine-diplomacy-narrow-minded-political-advisory-body-idUSKCN2AV0V6\">vaccine diplomacy<\/a>,&#8221; hawking its own coronavirus vaccine in exchange for expanded geopolitical influence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The revelations regarding top medical research institutions&#8217; cooperation with China also fit a larger picture of how China aims to use American colleges in its struggle with the United States. A State Department <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/state-department-says-anti-american-educators-undermine-u-s-efforts-to-counter-china\/\">report<\/a> from November warned that China has worked to foster anti-American sentiment on campuses. A January<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/organizations-linked-to-chinese-military-are-a-cash-cow-for-american-colleges\/\">report<\/a> found that through partnerships and donations, at least $88 million in capital linked to the Chinese military has made its way to American colleges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Republican lawmakers have demanded increased transparency in the relationships between colleges and China. President Joe Biden rolled back a Trump administration executive order that would have dealt a blow to China-backed Confucius Institutes, campus cultural centers often used as forward posts for Chinese espionage.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ivy League universities and medical schools are partnering with China-backed institutions considered to be grave national security risks. 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