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As one American university after another suspended research ties with Huawei for its alleged ties to Chinese espionage, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte offered a full-throttle defense of the company.
"Don't ban Huawei," read a May 2019 column published under Negroponte's name. "The U.S. should collaborate with leading technology companies and their research labs, rather than banning them."
Negroponte, however, did not write the column, at least according to Huawei employee Winter Wright, who noted on his LinkedIn profile that he ghostwrote the article on behalf of the MIT scholar, whose research center has received millions of dollars in research funding from the Chinese tech company.
The op-ed is one aspect of the years-long relationship between Huawei and Negroponte, which continued even after MIT cut ties with the company following a 13-count federal indictment. For years, Negroponte praised Huawei and defended it against criticism; Huawei in turn funded the MIT Media Lab, a world-class research institute that Negroponte founded in 1985.
Neither Wright nor Negroponte returned requests for comment.
Negroponte is one of America's most influential public intellectuals, boasting extensive ties to the tech and government worlds. Negroponte was an angel investor in such prominent U.S. tech companies as Skype, while his brother, John Negroponte, served as the deputy secretary of state for the Bush administration.
The partnership between Negroponte and Huawei is just one example of the extensive monetary ties that exist between China and U.S. colleges. China's military-industrial complex has funneled $88 million to U.S. universities in recent years, a Washington Free Beacon review of records found. More than 100 American colleges at one point hosted a Confucius Institute, a Chinese government-funded Mandarin program that has received bipartisan criticism for being a threat to academic freedom on American campuses.
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It is unclear how much money Huawei gave to MIT Media Lab as part of its corporate sponsorship. MIT has publicly acknowledged only $500,000 in Huawei donations, but one MIT Media Lab researcher's website notes that Huawei donated $1.4 million to fund robotics research at the institution. MIT is currently the subject of a federal investigation for allegedly concealing donations from Huawei and other foreign sources.
Huawei sprayed a lot of money around MIT to various programs and research sponsorships. Probably some still being spent there.
ChiCom money - bump for later....
Huawei employee Winter Wright, who noted on his LinkedIn profile that he ghostwrote the article on behalf of the MIT scholar, whose research center has received millions of dollars in research funding from the Chinese tech company. The op-ed is one aspect of the years-long relationship between Huawei and Negroponte, which continued even after MIT cut ties with the company following a 13-count federal indictment. For years, Negroponte praised Huawei and defended it against criticism; Huawei in turn funded the MIT Media Lab, a world-class research institute that Negroponte founded in 1985... Negroponte is one of America's most influential public intellectuals, boasting extensive ties to the tech and government worlds. Negroponte was an angel investor in such prominent U.S. tech companies as Skype, while his brother, John Negroponte, served as the deputy secretary of state for the Bush administration.
John Negroponte’s brother.
And a recipient of funding from Jeffrey Epstein.
Interesting- it was John Negroponte who reclassified the Harmony Document database after people started translating and finding material on it that conflicted with the media narratives of alQaeda and the Saddam Hussein regime of Iraq.
Negroponte (L.O.S.T.)
10/9/2007, 5:53:27 PM · by processing please hold · 10 replies · 442+ views
GOPUSA ^ | October 9, 2007 | Cliff Kincaid
Do you think our “adversary press” is on the lookout for government lies? Consider the false testimony (web site) before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte on behalf of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). This is a treaty that our media want passed by the Senate. So they are letting his lies go completely unchallenged. One of the most audacious lies was that, despite the fact that the treaty carries the name “United Nations” in its title, it is not a U.N. treaty. Negroponte’s testimony included several “myths”...
Taiwan supporter criticizes Negroponte
9/2/2007, 11:40:20 AM · by NapkinUser · 5 replies · 181+ views
The Taipei Times ^ | Sep 02, 2007 | Charles Snyder
Supporters of Taiwan in Washington took senior officials of the administration of US President George W. Bush to task on Friday for comments last week about Taiwan’s international status and President Chen Shui-bian (陳水æ‰) and the Democratic Progressive Party’s plan to hold an election-day referendum on UN membership. Colorado Representative Tom Tancredo, a staunch supporter of Taiwan, criticized Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte for calling the referendum a move toward a declaration of independence, calling the statement “regrettable and irresponsible.” “If Mr Negroponte’s goal was to help validate a future Chinese attack on the island,” the congressman said in...
Wow. Why isn’t this in the headlines instead of the media fluff hitpieces on Trump.
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