TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATING HARVARD/YALE LINKS TO CHINESE MONEY
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION INVESTIGATING HARVARD/YALE LINKS TO CHINESE MONEY
BY LUIS MIGUEL
SEE: https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/34873-trump-administration-investigating-harvard-yale-links-to-chinese-money; republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research purposes:
The Trump administration is performing an investigation of Harvard and Yale over a potential underreporting of financial donations from foreign nations.
Per the Wall Street Journal, the Department of Education expanded an ongoing review of American universities that encompasses the two Ivy League universities. According to federal investigators, Harvard and Yale are two of several universities that failed to report at least $6.5 billion in funds from countries such as Saudi Arabia and China.
An Education Department document stated that U.S. universities are “multi-billion dollar, multi-national enterprises using opaque foundations, foreign campuses, and other sophisticated legal structures to generate revenue.” The document went on to accuse universities of actively soliciting funds from governments and entities that are hostile to America.
The money received by the universities “apparently does not reduce or otherwise offset American students’ tuition costs,” the document further states.
Yale’s spokeswoman, Karen Peart, told the Washington Examiner that the university received a request for records related to the Department of Education’s investigation.
The Trump administration maintains that Yale has not reported, at minimum, $375 million in foreign funding after failing to file reports for three years from 2014-2017.
Harvard also received a request for records, representatives of the university told The Hill.
In addition to documentation on China and Saudi Arabia, both schools have been asked to provide documentation on gifts and donations from Iran, Qatar, and Russia.
Should the institutions refuse to comply, the Education Department can send the Justice Department a request to pursue civil or criminal action.
Last month, the chairman of Harvard’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department was arrested and charged with lying in federal court in relation to receiving millions of dollars in funding for his department while the U.S. government also bequeathed millions in funding.
Charles Lieber received over $15 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense since 2008, according to court documents. The receipt of those funds mandated him to keep the government informed of any “significant foreign financial conflicts of interest,” which includes taking money from a foreign government.
Officials claim that Lieber served as a “Strategic Scientist” for central China’s Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) since 2011 without informing Harvard. They also say that from 2012 to 2017, Lieber took part in China’s “Thousand Talents Plan,” a program under which the communist country recruits foreign experts to contribute their skills and knowledge to Chinese projects, rewarding them for stealing “proprietary” knowledge.
The Harvard professor allegedly was paid $50,000 a month for his participation, approximately $158,000 for living expenses, and a cool $1.5 million to create a research lab at Wuhan.
The complaint filed against Lieber claims that he made false statements about his role in the Thousand Talents Plan and his association with the Chinese university. Harvard has stood by the professor throughout the investigation, stating that “WUT continued to falsely exaggerate” Lieber’s involvement with them.
This latest scandal should serve as further testament to the American people that the university system is inseparably linked to the globalist-socialist establishment that seeks to destroy our sovereignty, freedoms, and Republic.
While many patriots like to believe that such colleges have merely been corrupted and can still be salvaged, the truth is they are working precisely as they were designed to. Many of America’s universities have been bought, paid for, and owned by powerful globalist financial interests and are used by these interests to (1) indoctrinate youth into accepting the globalist-socialist agenda, (2) create a class of academic “experts” whose touting of globalism is taken as dogma by the masses, and (3) require career-aspiring youth to take on massive debt to get through college, which enriches the globalist financiers.
This symbiotic relationship between the globalist establishment and academia is perfectly illustrated in deceased sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s network of scientist friends.
A 2002 New York magazine piece on Epstein observed that he brought “a trophy-hunter’s zeal to his collection of scientists”:
“Epstein spends $20 million a year on them — encouraging them to engage in whatever kind of cutting-edge research might attract their fancy. They are, of course, quite lavish in their praise in return. Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine in 1972 and now presides over the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla. ‘Jeff is extraordinary in his ability to pick up on quantitative relations,’ says Edelman. ‘He came to see us recently. He is concerned with this basic question: Is it true that the brain is not a computer? He is very quick.’”
And a New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow revealed that MIT’s Media Lab received millions in donations secured by Epstein (including $2 million from Bill Gates) — an arrangement the university tried to hide.
Despite many conservatives’ disillusionment with the university system, it will continue to exert enormous control over the public so long as it is perceived as the only gateway to a good living.
It’s a status quo the globalist proponents of the New World Order are happy to maintain.