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| Newt Gingrich: China threatens takeover of our universities unless Biden does more to stop it |
| 2023-02-03 |
| [FoxNews] The arrogance, corruption, and dishonesty of many of our most prestigious universities have become so bad that the only reasonable historic American parallel is Lincoln Steffens's 1904 book "The Shame of the Cities." Steffens’ book was a stunning exposure of big city government corruption that convinced the American people to enact a profound wave of reforms. Now, some of our greatest educational institutions have been corrupted by foreign interests and money. This is hurting American students, our culture of freedom of ideas – and in some cases threatening our national security. The integrity of some of our oldest, most established universities has eroded to the point that only a major reform movement will save them – and our future. At a minimum, we need a federal law that requires real-time, online publication of all foreign gifts to universities. Consider three cases in New England: The University of Pennsylvania, the University of Delaware, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The University of Pennsylvania created the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement for former Vice President Joe Biden when he left office. It became a holding ground for key members of the Biden team, including the current Secretary of State. In fact, 10 Biden administration officials were on the Penn-Biden Center payroll:
Chinese Communists have donated an estimated $67 million to the University of Pennsylvania. We don’t know the actual amount or distribution – because the University of Pennsylvania refuses to open its books and be transparent or accountable. Under the previous administration, the U.S. Department of Education reported more than $6.5 billion in foreign funding and resources had been uncovered and never disclosed (contrary to law) by American universities. Money was funneled in from China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar just to name a few. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said in 2020 that The University of Delaware’s Biden Institute was even more secretive than the University of Pennsylvania’s Biden Center. The institute houses 1,875 boxes of then-Sen. Biden’s papers and many gigabytes of electronic data – and everything is secret. Because the University of Delaware is so politically connected and powerful, it is exempt from state Freedom of Information Act laws. We have no idea who gave money to the Biden Institute or who got it. Finally, while he was Secretary of State, Pompeo was blocked from speaking at MIT, because university officials thought it would offend the Chinese. One of our most prestigious universities refused to host America’s top diplomat, because their relationship with China was more important. (NBA anyone?) As Rep. Mike Gallagher, chairman of the new Select Committee on China, wrote to me in an email: What we need to point out relentlessly is that universities are addicted to Chinese Communist Party money. This gives the Chinese Communist Party enormous access and influence on our college campuses, and recognizing this threat, the Trump administration used a little-known tool in the form of Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, which requires colleges and universities to report foreign gifts and donations over $250,000. Thanks to its efforts, the Trump Education Department uncovered $6.5 billion in previously unreported foreign gifts, grants, and contracts involving some of our country’s most prestigious universities. But since President Biden took office, the number of reported foreign gifts has plummeted, and this math just doesn’t add up. That should concern us all as Americans. Congress must act to uncover and stop the Chinese Communist penetration of American higher education – and its role in the growing anti-American attitudes of many of our most important institutions of learning. The American people deserve to know. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 I have not paid much attention to Gingrich since he worked with Hillary Clinton to put forward a proposal to reform the State Department in a way that allowed all of the current bozos to stay on with periodic paid sabbaticals. This is much better. He is not making the statement that Biden is totally corrupted and that our universities are beyond being infiltrated. Everything he has laid out leads to that conclusion. His “proposal” is really an indictment that cannot be dismissed as MAGA rhetoric. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2023-02-03 16:10 |
| #5 Confucius say, "Buy all your bling From the worm in your Apple." [ring ring] "Wei ni hao." "You send more!" "More of what?" Roars the core, "Western capital!" "Translate." "Xijing." |
| Posted by: Alistaire Tojo1433 2023-02-03 15:21 |
| #4 The center of gravity for all of the China threat problems is the money we have paid them for decades for our off-shored industrial base and labor-intensive products we don't want to manufacture here. The fixes have always been obvious, but increasingly painful, and thus risk-averse politicians of every stripe just kicked this can down the superhighway of economic armageddon. We are very close to the the end of that pavement.... We could have started the Kissinger/Nixon triangulation strategy as the signature of China Rising became obvious, but the brilliance of Foggy Bottom and our elite thinkers has pushed the third leg of that Triad, post Cold-War victory lap, into a Ukraine sink-hole alignment with Peking (I like that using that word annoys them). Since a huge majority of my fellow citizens will find everything I wrote above (Rantburg Alum excepted) incomprehensible and obviously "old-think", I'm not expected much except more entropy... |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2023-02-03 13:19 |
| #3 ^ You'd think Newt would know that. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-02-03 13:00 |
| #2 Dude, he's on their payroll. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-02-03 11:36 |
| #1 It appears they already have. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2023-02-03 10:34 |