Editor’s Pick: Free Beacon on Princeton Taking Millions from Communist China

Chuck Ross of The Washington Free Beacon wrote Wednesday about how Princeton University, an Ivy League university, has received $5.6 Million from both a Chinese university as well as a head of think tanks with connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). This is the latest instance in which the CCP and American academia are joined together at the hip.

Ross stated that. “according to federal records,” Princeton fetched “$4.6 million from CCP-controlled Peking University to fund research hubs for drug development and computer science”Tung Cheehwa, founder of China-U.S. Exchange Foundation, gave the following “at least $1 million to fund Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China.”

Not surprisingly, Princeton has been irked by the pushback as “[n]early 200 faculty members at Princeton University urged Attorney General Merrick Garland in October to shutter” an FBI program called “the China Initiative to root out China’s efforts to steal technology from American businesses and universities and to influence American policymakers.”

Commenting on Ross’s article, Newsmax’s Rob Schmitt said Wednesday on his eponymous show that while colleges push to indoctrinate students with far-left views and “shut down conservative speakers,” they “have seemingly no problems linking arms with and accepting money from the Chinese Communist Party.”

Gordon Chang, a China expert, told Schmitt they allowed foreign interference through donations, flooding universities with Chinese students and that their close ties were also a factor. “means that…they are not countering Chinese diplomats and ministry of state security agents who have the free run of the place[.]”

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