The disturbing link between the Biden White House, China, and academia continues to unfold in a slew of new revelations involving vast amounts of money.
First, the country was rocked by news that the University of Pennsylvania received millions of dollars from Communist China after the creation of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement there — the very center that was found to have housed classified government documents.
Now it has come to light that another university is potentially involved in the selling of political influence. The University of Delaware received $6.7 million in donations from Chinese sources — including direct funding from the Chinese government — following the inauguration of the Biden Institute there. The University of Delaware is, notably, Joe Biden’s alma mater.
This figure comes from an analysis by the Government Accountability Institute.
The report reads:
On March 13, 2017, less than seven weeks after concluding his second term as vice president Joe Biden announced the founding of the Biden Institute at his home state’s University of Delaware (UD). According to the announcement, part of Biden’s “vision for the institute is an annual conference at UD, similar to the World Economic Forum or the Aspen Institute.”
At the very moment of Biden’s announcement at UD, multiple members of the Biden family were receiving millions of dollars linked to the highest levels of Chinese intelligence. And Biden’s other university program at the University of Pennsylvania was apparently housing classified documents from the Obama-Biden administration in an improper way.
Prior to hosting the Biden Institute, UD had never disclosed any funding from China. One year later (and just two months after the Penn Biden center opened its D.C. office), anonymous donations from China to UD skyrocketed. The first payment came in April 2018 in the amount of $3,204,070 from an anonymous Chinese donor. In December 2018, another anonymous Chinese donation arrived for $1,869,515. A third anonymous China-linked payment (for $624,904) arrived in December 2019.
The analysis further notes that in 2020, while Biden was running for president, anonymous Chinese entities with ties to their country’s government sent the University of Delaware three additional payments that totaled $1,005,761. Most of this money arrived after Biden had been designated president-elect.
The University of Pennsylvania, meanwhile, took in $51 million in foreign funding in 2021. That included $14 million from China and Hong Kong; $2.4 million from Saudi Arabia; and $1 million from the Cayman Islands specifically gifted to the Penn Wharton China program.
And this is on top of the $61 million Chinese donors gave to the University of Pennsylvania between 2017 and 2020.
Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, has been a frequent focal point of scrutiny for regularly serving as the direct point of contact and public name for business dealings involving the Chinese to which his father is indirectly tied.
It’s not surprising, then, that Hunter Biden is widely known as the originator of the idea for the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute, having conceived it while the elder Biden was still working as Vice President under Obama.
In March of 2016, Hunter Biden met with incoming University of Delaware President Dennis Assanis to discuss the matter as part of Hunter and his associates’ efforts to promote the “Biden brand.”
A month after this meeting, Hunter talked with talent agent Craig Gering about both the UD Biden Center and the Biden Center at UPenn, per emails unearthed on Hunter Biden’s laptop.
According to Gering’s “confidential notes,” Hunter was originally supposed to serve in some capacity at the Penn Biden Center. Furthermore, Gering noted that these academic programs were supposed to work like the “Clinton Global Initiative without the money raise.”
In other words, just as the Clinton Global Initiative was a scheme to sell access to the Clinton State Department, so would these Biden centers sell access to Biden within his various capacities in government — including president of the United States.
And who has been buying that access? Beijing.
It should thus come as no shock that the Biden Department of Energy recently announced the awarding of $1.6 million to the Chinese-backed green-energy company LanzaTech — which notably also has ties to top Democratic politicians.
Carbon-capture company LanzaTech signed a partnership in 2021 with Sinopec Capital, which is the clean energy-focused subsidiary of a Chinese state-owned oil conglomerate. In addition to the Sinopec connection, LanzaTech has raised millions of dollars from CITIC Capital, a subsidiary of the biggest state-run conglomerate in China.
With the GOP now in control of the House of Representatives, Republicans are attempting to push back at the administration’s closeness with China.
For example, Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, is looking into John Kerry, Biden’s Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC), over Kerry’s secretive talks with Chinese government officials.
What is now more clear than ever before is Joe Biden’s willingness to sell his country for a few pieces of silver — or in this case, a few million Chinese yuan.
