What role have American elites played in building Chinese Communism? What role do they continue to play? Now is a good time to ask these questions, in light of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley’s (R-Iowa) current probe into reports that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation have been funding the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Yes, you read that correctly! “According to recent reports, [your organizations], through grants and direct payments, have funded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its allies,” Senator Grassley wrote in an October 28 Judiciary Committee press release.

The release elaborated:

• “The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2023 reportedly directed approximately $11.7 million to various arms of the CCP, as well as $2 million to a corporation working with the Chinese military and $6.7 million to state-run Chinese universities. In fiscal year 2022, the nonprofit organization reportedly provided roughly $23 million to over 20 different Chinese entities, some of which were labeled ‘foreign governments.’”
• “The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, from April 2020 to August 2024, reportedly donated $7.4 million to organizations that were part of the CCP, led by members of the CCP or engaged in partnerships with China. Specifically, the nonprofit partnered with the ‘Society of Entrepreneurs of Ecology Foundation,’ which partnered with the CCP to assist the Belt and Road Initiative.”
• “The Ford Foundation, from January 2020 to December 2024, reportedly provided nearly $10 million to the Chinese government to further the Belt and Road Initiative. Most of the Ford Foundation’s Chinese grant funding was reportedly given to state-run, or CCP-run, universities with strong ties to the People’s Liberation Army.”

But it is not just the foundations that are pursuing such suicidal directives. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that Mao Zedong’s communist forces could not have subjugated mainland China in 1949 if not for the machinations of U.S. foreign-policy makers. At the 1945 Yalta Conference toward the end of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt promised Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin the vast northern Chinese province of Manchuria in exchange for Soviet entrance into the war against Japan. This secret agreement was made unbeknownst to American ally Chiang Kai-shek, who was fighting more than a million Japanese troops. The Soviet army, poised along the Manchurian border and supplied with American lend-lease equipment, entered the war against Japan three days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. At that late stage, noted General Albert C. Wedemeyer in his book Wedemeyer Reports!, “the Red Army naturally met practically no enemy resistance and was soon in complete control of Manchuria” — after which “the Russians received the surrender of Japanese arms and equipment [stockpiled in the region], which they overtly and covertly made available to the Chinese Communists.”

Other disastrous U.S. foreign-policy steps that brought about the fall of mainland China to the communists include the ceasefires forced upon Chiang when he was making military progress, U.S. insistence that Chiang form a coalition government with the communists, and our embargo on the sale or shipment of arms to Chiang. General George Marshall boasted, “As Chief of Staff I armed 39 anti-Communist divisions; now with a stroke of the pen I disarm them.”

On January 25, 1949, a young Massachusetts congressman, John F. Kennedy, told the House of Representatives, “The responsibility for the failure of our foreign policy in the Far East rests squarely with the White House and the Department of State.” Five days later he added, “What our young men had saved, our diplomats and our President have frittered away.”

The truth needs to be much more widely known about how the U.S. foreign-policy establishment has helped communism while ostensibly opposing it — not just in China and not just under Democratic administrations. So does the truth about how major American tax-exempt foundations have been using their grant-making powers to help communism. In the 1950s, a congressional committee known as the Reese Committee tried to investigate the large foundations, but its efforts were stymied by the Deep State at the time. Hopefully Grassley will have more success.