Posted on 01/22/2023 8:04:10 PM PST by SeekAndFind
With reports that classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement at the University of Pennsylvania, questions arise about the potential connection between the university’s receipt of $54 million in Chinese donations and President Joe Biden’s promotion of energy policies that are strengthening China’s economy at the expense of our own.
Under Biden’s anti-fossil fuel energy policies, Americans have been left with higher costs and a weaker economy while China has gained a larger market for its “green energy” wind turbines, solar panels, and electric vehicle batteries.
Could the money and the policies be related?
The New York Post reported that tens of millions in donations to the University of Pennsylvania came from Chinese donors after the Penn Biden Center was first announced in 2017.
Between 2017 and 2019, Biden also allegedly received $775,000 from the university, although he had no teaching responsibilities.
Around the same time, Biden’s son, Hunter, was conducting lucrative deals in China that are alleged to have included a cut for Biden.
The National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint with the Justice Department in 2020 alleging that Hunter Biden’s Chinese energy client, CEFC, was trying to avoid registering as a foreign company.
One reported text message regarding CEFC in May 2017 from Hunter to his colleague, Tony Bobulinski, stated, “We don’t want to have to register as foreign agents … which is much more expansive than people who should know choose not to know.”
The Chinese donations seem to be paying off. The Biden administration is following California’s lead with a goal of transitioning to sales of only battery electric vehicles by 2035; an executive branch focus on climate change; and support of the environmental, social, and governance movement.
The California Air Resources Board has issued a rule that all new vehicles sold in the Golden State be plug-in hybrid or pure battery powered by 2035. In Washington, Biden issued an executive order calling for half of the nation’s new vehicle sales to be electric vehicles by 2030 and instructed the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to “coordinate the agency’s activities” with the state of California.
The rule and executive order trade America’s energy security—and its reliance on inexpensive domestically-produced oil and natural gas—for dependence on batteries made in China, reportedly with slave labor from the Xinjiang region. America cannot produce these batteries at a lower cost than those that are slave-made in China.
Moreover, electric vehicles have limited range and are more expensive than equivalent gasoline-powered vehicles, so the orders emanating from the White House will raise the costs of transportation for Americans—further weakening the U.S. economy. More money spent on cars also means less money to spend on other products and services.
Over the last year, executive branch agencies have used climate change to justify slowing the production and delivery of U.S. oil, natural gas, and coal, and to encourage the use of wind turbines and solar panels made in China. This drives up Americans’ electricity bills. And, once again, it’s the Chinese who profit: Seven of the top 10 wind and solar manufacturers are Chinese.
More specifically:
Led by BlackRock Inc. and State Street Global Advisors, major financial institutions are pressuring international development organizations, private corporations, and pension funds not to invest in conventional fuels. This weakens America, which produces these fuels, and helps China, which manufactures the alternatives—wind turbines and solar panels—using coal-fired power plants.
ESG means fewer jobs for Americans, more jobs for the Chinese.
As my colleague, Heritage Action for America Executive Director Jessica Anderson, explains, “The ESG movement is set on taking over culture and business to control working Americans.”
On its website, State Street suggests four ways to influence companies’ investments, all of which would benefit China. First, require countries to adopt regulations to reduce carbon emissions. Second, raise consciousness of climate change through “more ESG education, guidance, solutions, and analytics.” Third, take over corporate boards and use customers and investors “to compel companies and organizations to address climate risks and opportunities.” Finally, organize global pledges to cut fossil fuel carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050.
By following the ESG movement and discouraging investments in conventional fuels, America is giving up geopolitical power overseas as well as economic strength at home. For example, China is financing the production of coal-fired power plants in developing countries that American institutions refuse to fund, giving the Chinese significant influence as it helps those countries provide cheap power to homes and industry.
Some might justify these “gifts” to China on the grounds that the world’s climate will benefit from lower emissions as a result of U.S. decarbonization. But China is producing the wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries it sells to the U.S. with coal, increasing global emissions.
Consider that America has 225 coal-fired power plants and China has 1,118 (half of all the coal-fired plants in the world). Since 2010, America has reduced coal-fired electricity generation by 100,000 megawatts; China has increased it by 580,000 megawatts. Between 2005 and 2020, America cut its carbon dioxide emissions by 970 million metric tons, while China increased its emissions by 4,689 million metric tons.
Many people have been puzzled that Biden has oriented American energy policy toward a country that enslaves its people, steals intellectual property from the United States, and threatens our allies and partners.
The ongoing federal investigation into son Hunter’s multimillion-dollar Chinese business deals and the reports of tens of millions of dollars in Chinese donations flowing to the University of Pennsylvania just as it was creating Biden’s new think tank may give a clue as to why.
I thought Jesuits were Catholic.
The jury is still out on that one. Officially, yes they are. Philisophically and Theologically sometimes they aren’t.
CC
Do Chinese Donations Explain Biden’s Energy Policies?Explain? No. They dictate them.
Be assured. If Trump were to receive a free takeout from a Chinese restaurant, the press would be all over claiming he was bribed by the Chinese
OH NO.
NOT HONEST JOE BIDEN!
(Sarcasm)
Everything this lying thug criminal traitor does is tied to his pocketbook
indeed. as Trump said, “climate change” is a hoax, which benefits China.
if only everyone understood how damaging the “green new deal” policies are/will be, we’d put a stop to it, but the FakeNewsMSM ensures we remain divided.
“Donations? They used to call them Bribes, right?”
Com’on man.
Washington royalty do not get bribed, they get donations.
Only low level Republicans and MAGA politicians get bribed.
To quote a John Prine song - “A question ain’t really a question if you know the answer too...”
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW
UPenn Can’t Explain Mystery Donation From Chinese Company
Washington Free Bacon ^ | AUGUST 3, 2020 | Alana Goodman
Posted on 8/5/2020, 4:44:03 PM by Rebelbase
The University of Pennsylvania pocketed a $3 million donation last year from a mysterious Hong Kong shell company that is owned by a Shanghai businessman with deep ties to Chinese government officials.
The donation from Xu Xeuqing, who has no apparent connection to the University of Pennsylvania and was previously embroiled in a Shanghai public corruption scandal, raises questions about the true source of the money. Documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show Xeuqing has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party.
China has poured money into American universities in recent years, in part to buy influence on campuses, experts say. The donation comes as federal prosecutors have increased scrutiny on the Chinese government’s influence-buying and espionage operations at American universities.
“Unequivocally they’re using the money they’re providing the universities to garner influence there,” said Ben Freeman, the director of the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy. “It’s not the sole motive, but it’s one of a variety of motives.”
Foreign money has poured into the school over the past few years with a significant portion coming from China. The Ivy League school received $61 million in gifts and contracts from China between March 2017 and the end of 2019; over the previous four year period, it took in just $19 million from Chinese donors.
The University of Pennsylvania received the $3 million in question from a Hong Kong-based company called “Nice Famous Corporation Limited,” according to financial disclosures.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
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Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia
<><>In June 2020, SS records showed that, for the first 5 1/2 years of the Obama/Biden admin,
<><>Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a tax paid Secret Service protective detail.
<><>During that time period, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights,
<><>he went to 29 different foreign countries.
<><>Hunter visited China five times.
<><>Judicial Watch is suing DHS for SS records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs,
<><>>suing the State Dept for messages sent thru the SMART system that mention Hunter Biden.
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The voluminous report of Hunters 459 crimes sent to Congress reviewed his laptop’s
<><>emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents, and more,
<><>provided context and explanation,
<><>serves as a “Rosetta Stone of crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’
<><>WRT a convoluted network of people leading the charge for global governance,
<><>including shell companies and middlemen
Crimes Hunter Biden allegedly committed include
<><>serving as an agent for foreign entities without disclosing it,
<><>tax fraud,
<><>falsifying business documents
<><>prostitution,
<><>non-consensual pornography,
<><>and distribution of narcotics.Lawsuit: DOJ Concealing Records of Biden Family Payoffs with China and Russia
<><>In June 2020, SS records showed that, for the first 5 1/2 years of the Obama/Biden admin,
<><>Hunter Biden traveled extensively while receiving a tax paid Secret Service protective detail.
<><>During that time period, Hunter Biden took 411 separate domestic and international flights,
<><>he went to 29 different foreign countries.
<><>Hunter visited China five times.
<><>Judicial Watch is suing DHS for SS records on Hunter Biden’s travel and security costs,
<><>>suing the State Dept for messages sent thru the SMART system that mention Hunter Biden.
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The voluminous report of Hunters 459 crimes sent to Congress reviewed his laptop’s
<><>emails, videos, calendar items, photographs, phone records, financial documents, and more,
<><>provided context and explanation,
<><>serves as a “Rosetta Stone of crime under the patina of ‘the Delaware Way,’
<><>WRT a convoluted network of people leading the charge for global governance,
<><>including shell companies and middlemen
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Hunter Biden’s $49,910 Rent Exactly Matches $49,910 Deposit on Office Shared with Chinese Energy Company
1/18/2023, 8:33:57 AM · 15 of 22
Liz to All
Salon.com
<><>DOJ looking into why Hunter Biden was financially tied to a Chinese energy company
<><>New evidence indicates Hunter got $4.8M from CEFC China Energy
By KELLY MCCLURE
Nights & Weekends Editor
PUBLISHED MARCH 30, 2022 6:34PM (EDT)
The investigation into Hunter Biden’s financial dealings is ramping up, with potentially condemning new evidence discovered that ties President Biden’s son to a Chinese energy conglomerate named CEFC China Energy.
In a review published by The Washington Post today they detail that over the course of 14-months CEFC China Energy paid $4.8 million “to entities controlled by Hunter Biden and his uncle.” Evidence to this fact was landed upon with the use of government records, court documents, newly available bank statements and emails pulled from a copy of a hard drive from a laptop believed to have once belonged to Hunter Biden, according to The Washington Post.
Related: Trump asks Putin for Biden dirt; Russian state TV calls to “again help our partner Trump”
Although the new evidence does not indicate that President Biden was personally involved in these CEFC dealings, or that he benefitted from them in any way, there is evidence that Hunter Biden leveraged his father’s influence, and contacts President Biden has made over the years, for his own financial gain.
Among the newly discovered materials is a $1 million legal retainer signed by Hunter Biden for the representation of a CEFC official named Patrick Ho “who would later be charged in the United States in connection with a multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe leaders from Chad and Uganda,” according to The Washington Post.
Hunter Biden has been under federal tax investigation since 2018, specifically in relation to income obtained from business deals with China, but nothing solid has come from it until around 2020.
Along with the large sum of money received from CEFC, evidence has revealed that Hunter Biden was also gifted a 2.8-carat diamond from Chinese energy tycoon Ye Jianming. The diamond, which Hunter claimed was only worth around $10,000, but is actually valued at more along the lines of $80K, was brought up in the divorce proceedings between Hunter and ex-wife Kathleen Buhle, according to The New Yorker.
The diamond was reportedly given to Hunter in 2017 when Hunter met with Jianming in Miami hoping to get his donation to the World Food Program USA nonprofit that Hunter was a board member of. During a dinner that took place on that trip, Hunter offered to use his contacts to nail down investment opportunities for CEFC China Energy and Jianming was so pleased with this, according to The New Yorker, he sent the diamond to Hunter’s hotel room as a gift of appreciation.
“I knew it wasn’t a good idea to take it. I just felt like it was weird,” Hunter said to The New Yorker, claiming to have handed it off to an associate.
Read more:
DOJ purging all Trump-appointed U.S. attorneys — except the one investigating Hunter Biden
Barr rejects Trump’s demand for special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden on his way out
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<><>WHYY-PBS reported U of Penn made a $100M contribution to the Phila School District.
<><>Is the U of Penn’s donation dirty Chinese money?
<><> is Penn getting rid of evidence to save Biden’s sorry ***?
<><>Philly’s other big universities stay silent (Shakedown City?)
WHYY.com / / FR Posted on 12/6/2020 by Kid Shelleen
Two weeks after the U of Pennsylvania made a gargantuan $100 million contribution to the School District of Philadelphia, it’s unlikely the cash infusion will inspire copycat donations from major higher education peers in the city. When Ivy League Penn made its announcement, City Council member Helen Gym and others voiced hope that other universities with large landholdings, like Temple or Drexel, might also pony up. “I certainly hope that some of our strongest civic institutions can see beyond their individual acts of charity and generosity,” “When universities and our major nonprofits, who have long been invested in education and public health, unite on a mission to invest in our schools, we send a clear message to Harrisburg and to Washington, D.C. that we are invested in our future.” (Excerpt) Read more at whyy.org ...
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Biden Center Under Investigation for Illegal Donations From China
DB Daily Update | David Blackmon / FR Posted on 5/25/2020, 9:19:56 AM by EyesOfTX
If the label says “Biden,” it was definitely influenced by China. – John Solomon at JustTheNews.com is reporting that The National Legal and Policy Center has asked the U.S. Department of Education to investigate its findings that the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has over the past several years accepted more than $22 million in anonymous China-originated donations to its Biden Center and failed to properly disclose the contributions.
From Solomon’s report: The complaint, filed by the National Legal and Policy Center, says that over the past three years, the university has (admitted to accepting around) $22 million in anonymous funding from Chinese sources. That’s out of a total of more than $70 million from Chinese donors during that time, the NLPC said.
Those significant funds, including the anonymous amounts, rolled in after the Biden Center was announced in early 2017 and launched in February 2018. The center is located in downtown Washington, D.C. Federal records show that the University of Pennsylvania has received significant donations from Communist China since the opening of the Biden Center.
One 2018 donation alone totals $14.5 million; it is listed as “anonymous” in federal records. The NLPC alleges the university may have violated federal law in accepting those anonymous monetary donations from Communist China. The Higher Education Act mandates schools report the national origins of any donations above $250,000 although not necessarily the individual names of donors themselves. [End]
This serves as just one more reminder that Biden, his son (and his brother) have long been in the pockets of Communist Chinese interests. The stark reality facing our country today is that of the gains President Donald Trump has made through the sheer force of his will in terms of U.S./China relations and trade policy will be immediately reversed the day after Biden assumes office.
KEEP IN MIND.....virtually all U.S. antibiotics and PPE are sourced through China at some point along their supply chains....... There are trillions of dollars at stake, and Creepy Uncle Joe wants to ensure his family continues to get its fair share out of Communist China.
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University of Penn that housed Biden Center pressed
to end FBI China spy probe after big Beijing donations
1/12/2023, 11:38:38 AM · by george76 · 14 replies
Just the News. ^ | January 12, 2023 | John Solomon and Nick Givas
University of Pennsylvania, which hosted the Penn Biden Center where classified documents were found in November, received $47.7 million from China in the three years when Biden was affiliated with it. ...
The University of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League institution which collected tens of millions of dollars from China while paying Joe Biden and hosting his foreign policy think tank, successfully pressured the Biden Justice Department to end an FBI counterespionage program targeting Beijing’s increasing influence within U.S. academia.
Attorney General Merrick Garland shut down the FBI’s so-called China initiative in February 2022 shortly after more than 160 members of...
UPDATE....... AFTER THE CHINESE TAINT SURFACED, PENN SUDDENLY GAVE AWAY $100 MILLION TO PA PUBLIC SCHOOLS....
WAS THIS DIRTY CHINESE MONEY PENN DESPERATELY NEEDED OFF THE BOOKS TO SAVE. BIDENS FILTHY *SS?
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