The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has reportedly sent $54 million to fund “global health” projects in China since the outbreak of COVID-19. This includes major sums of cash to institutions controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), as well as collaborators of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The foundation has given China-based projects 93 grants totaling $54,573,428 since December of 2019. Recipients of these grants include Beijing Normal University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, and official regime bodies, such as the Ministry of Agriculture, the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The Chinese CDC played a major role in pushing the narrative that COVID-19 developed naturally. This is opposed to tracing the virus’ origins to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In fact, Wuhan University received a $127,650 grant from the Gates Foundation in January 2021, even though the school regularly worked with the Wuhan Institute of Virology on research, including studies focusing on bat coronaviruses funded by Anthony Fauci.
A number of the Gates Foundation’s grants empower China to assume a bigger role in global health and governance, despite the fact that the country’s ruling regime has impeded efforts to uncover the origins of COVID-19.
In October, the foundation sent $150,000 to the China Science and Technology Exchange Center to fund a project “to enhance China’s research and development contribution to global health and development by strengthening partnerships with the government, industry, and academia.”
An additional $300,000 was sent to the state-run China Agricultural University in September to “build an enabling environment for supporting China’s engagement in global health.”
Numerous Gates Foundation grants to Chinese entities were intended to broaden the CCP’s role in vaccine development and distribution. Among these was a $300,000 grant to Tsinghua University in August 2020 “to establish a think tank to provide regulatory science research and technical support for vaccine ecosystem building suggestions.”
Tsinghua University is the alma mater of Chinese President Xi Jinping and has a history of launching cyber attacks against the U.S. government.
Additionally, there is a “clear connection between [Tsinghua] and the state administration for technology and industry in discussions on what [they] can do to help the national security,” according to former Senior Intelligence Officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency and State Department Official Nicholas Eftimiades.
Another $120,000 was sent by the foundation to state-run Zhejiang University in May 2020 to “engage China to play a bigger role in global governance and to contribute more to GAVI.”
GAVI, formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, is a self-described “global health partnership of public and private sector organizations dedicated to immunization for all.”
GAVI is also funded by other elite foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation. It has formed a partnership with Mastercard to create a biometric digital identity platform known as Trust Stamp, which will be integrated into GAVI-Mastercard “Wellness Pass,” a digital vaccination record and identity system.
The National Pulse further reports:
In May 2020, the foundation sent $600,000 to China’s CDC “to support emergency response and evaluation, and prepare China for the potential pandemic, which will not only help disease control and containment but contribute China’s experience to global health.” An additional $400,000 was sent to CanSino Biologics Inc. “to support international collaboration on development of anti-coronavirus vaccines, which will increase the availability of safe and effective vaccines for sustainable, global distribution and use” in April 2020.
The Gates Foundation has also funded projects aimed at expanding China’s role in Africa, including a $170,410 grant to the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences “to support targeted researches and consensus building activities for the drafting of China-Africa Ag Modernization Plan with the aim of better leveraging China’s expertise to facilitate Africa countries’ agricultural transformation.”
Deleted web pages show that Gates lavished praise on the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC), a controversial influence group backed by the CCP.
The CPAFFC has been called the “public face” of the United Front Work Department, which is a billion-dollar effort by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence foreign individuals and the policies of foreign states to serve Beijing’s interests,” per the federal U.S.-China Security and Economic Review Commission.
