{"id":598230,"date":"2023-11-19T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/congress-biden-must-crack-down-on-universities-chinese-gravy-train\/"},"modified":"2023-11-19T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T14:00:00","slug":"congress-biden-must-crack-down-on-universities-chinese-gravy-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/congress-biden-must-crack-down-on-universities-chinese-gravy-train\/","title":{"rendered":"#Congress, Biden must crack down on universities\u2019 Chinese gravy-train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/11\/TOP-Biden-and-Xi_111523_New-York-Times_Doug-Mills.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>            <iframe title=\"Audio Article\" id=\"instaread_iframe\" name=\"instaread_playlist\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" style=\"display:block\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) issued its 2023\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscc.gov\/annual-report\/2023-annual-report-congress\">report<\/a>\u00a0to Congress on Nov. 14. The report included 30 recommendations of \u201cparticular significance.\u201d Its third recommendation identified proposals to \u201caddress China\u2019s state-sponsored influence and interference\u201d now affecting America\u2019s universities.<\/p>\n<p>Released a day before President Biden\u2019s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in San Francisco, the report addresses a wide range of China\u2019s challenges to the U.S. and offers important legislative recommendations for protecting America\u2019s interests.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The report is particularly notable for the\u00a0unanimous support\u00a0it received from all USCC commissioners for its recommendations. For reference, its chairman served as chief of staff to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and its vice chairman was a foreign policy adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) before becoming a deputy assistant secretary of state in the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>Six of the commissioners were <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed by Democratic congressional leaders and six were appointed by Republican congressional leaders. In short, this is a genuinely bipartisan commission.<\/p>\n<p>The USCC urges legislative amendments to the Higher Education Act of 1965 that would require enhanced foreign gift and contract disclosures by universities, going back at least 10 years. It would require that those records be shared with the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and that an interagency review regularly identify security risks posed by the financial ties between universities and China. <\/p>\n<p>In a sign of the seriousness of the threat, the commission calls for a complete end to federal financial assistance for universities that fail to comply with these disclosure requirements over three consecutive or nonconsecutive years. Finally, the report recommends that the U.S. Department of Education evaluate the \u201cadequacy\u201d of the current $250,000 threshold for foreign gifts and contracts reporting by universities, indicating that an even lower reporting threshold might be appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>The USCC\u2019s proposed reforms would significantly strengthen foreign financial disclosure requirements and penalties for compliance failures by universities. These reforms aren\u2019t likely to be welcomed by universities long addicted to significant foreign financial arrangements with friend and foe alike.<\/p>\n<p>Many of our most prominent universities have often failed to disclose massive contributions from China, Russia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other countries, as the Education Department revealed in its Oct. 2020 compliance\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fsapartners.ed.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-04\/ReportonInstitutionalCompliancewithSection117oftheHigherEducationActof1965October2020.pdf\">report<\/a>. Other significant foreign financial ties have also been hidden by universities.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Only weeks ago, the Department of Justice\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/stanford-university-agrees-pay-19-million-resolve-allegations-it-failed-disclose-foreign\">announced a <\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/stanford-university-agrees-pay-19-million-resolve-allegations-it-failed-disclose-foreign\">settlement agreement<\/a>\u00a0with Stanford University over Stanford\u2019s failure to disclose foreign financial involvement in its research programs, even as the private university was successfully applying for significant federal research grants, including grants from the National <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Science<\/a> Foundation, NASA and the Departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force. <\/p>\n<p>Other reports reveal that UCLA likely received at least $30 million in federal research grants even as its former director was quietly setting up a similar AI center in China. The FBI, NSF and other agencies are almost certainly continuing to investigate similar disclosure failures by multiple universities receiving significant federal research grants.<\/p>\n<p>Yale University thought so little of its statutory disclosure requirements that it failed to report all foreign gifts and contracts from 2014 to 2017, even though it received around $375 million in reportable foreign funding during that period. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The Justice Department revealed the inadequate institutional controls over undisclosed foreign involvement by prominent faculty at Harvard as well, as illustrated by the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1239796\/download\">charges<\/a>\u00a0against Charles Lieber, chair of the chemistry department. Lieber received $50,000 a month from China\u2019s Wuhan University of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Technology<\/a> and a $1.5 million award to establish a research lab at Wuhan University. <\/p>\n<p>Stanford, Harvard and Yale\u2019s failures, although shocking, are hardly unique.<\/p>\n<p>China has identified our universities as \u201csoft targets\u201d for its ongoing effort to acquire our latest research products and intellectual property. FBI Director Christopher Wray\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/investigate\/counterintelligence\/the-china-threat\">has described<\/a>\u00a0China\u2019s counterintelligence and economic espionage threat as \u201cthe greatest long-term threat to our nation\u2019s information and intellectual property, and to our economic vitality.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>This is no time for President Biden or Congress to pretend that China\u2019s threat has diminished.<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s summit in San Francisco, the leadership of several important American companies paid top dollar to dine with President Xi at a \u201cwelcome banquet\u201d organized by the U.S.-China Business Council and the National Committee on U.S. China Relations. Access to China\u2019s markets is, understandably, a goal of American industry. Xi can be expected to pressure those same business leaders to urge Congress and other U.S. policymakers to deemphasize America\u2019s current heightened concerns with China\u2019s continued belligerence toward the U.S. and its Indo-Pacific allies.<\/p>\n<p>Churchill was right that \u201cjaw-jaw is better than war-war.\u201d But until Xi orders an end to China\u2019s hostile acts against America, including targeting the critical research and talent developed at our universities, Biden and Congress should move quickly to implement the bipartisan USCC\u2019s important foreign financial disclosure reforms for universities to protect the national security interests of the American people. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p><em>Paul R.\u00a0Moore, a former assistant U.S. attorney who served as chief investigative counsel at the U.S. Department of Education, is a senior fellow at the Prague Security Studies Institute.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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