The University of Delaware’s Biden Institute, a research and policy center founded “to influence, shape, and work to solve the most pressing domestic policy problems facing America,” is refusing to name its donors, Politico has reported.
The institute, founded in 2017, aspires to embody the “honesty, integrity, compassion, and courage” that it says Joe Biden represents.
Donors to the institute’s ongoing $20-million fund-raising campaign could be “interested in currying favor with the Biden administration,” Politico pointed out.
Antony Blinken, Biden’s nominee to become Secretary of State, is facing questions about the sources of $22 million in anonymous Chinese donations to the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement, where Blinken was a managing director and was paid $80,000 during the first six months of 2018, according to Blinken’s financial disclosure form.
The right-wing National Legal and Policy Center is demanding Blinken and the center “disclose the identity of $22 million in anonymous Chinese donations since 2017, including a single, eye-popping donation of $14.5 million.”
The center claims that Chinese sources have given $67 million to the University of Pennsylvania since 2018.
At least 28 people connected to nonprofits affiliated with Joe Biden have advised his transition or are joining his administration, Zerohedge.com reported.
PUBLISHER’S NOTE: Blinken has worked with and for Biden and the Democratic Party for decades. Biden was a big pusher for China’s inclusion in the World Trade Organization. A $22-million donation is chump change compared to the trillions China has made since they were allowed into the WTO in 2001.
Indeed, as reported by Reuters, “Biden has backed free trade over his three decades in Congress,” and “He supported the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and China’s entry into the WTO in 2001.
